Icons
The Eastern image. Painted panels and wall paintings from Byzantium, Greece, Russia, Serbia, Georgia and Bulgaria, Boyana, Lesnovo, Staro Nagoričane, plus the workshop practice, the egg tempera and gilding, and the icon painters still doing it.
Part of Saint Michael
79 moments in this segment.
- - Clevelandart 1967.144. Late-antique Egyptian (Coptic) textile fragment with an archangel figure, c. 5th-6th century; the earliest Egyptian angel imagery underlying later Coptic Michael icons.
- - St. George medalion from Michael archange icon. Medallion of Saint George from a Georgian repousse icon of the Archangel Michael, 12th century.
- - Saint Michael, a 13th-century Yaroslavl icon. Russian icon of the Archangel Michael from Yaroslavl, c. 1300, Tretyakov Gallery; among the oldest surviving Russian Michael panels.
- - Frescos in St. George's Church (Staro Nagoricane) 015. Orthodox 'Synaxis of the Bodiless Powers', showing Michael among the archangels.
- - Frescos from the Michael the Archangel Church of Lesnovo 019. Fourteenth-century Serbian Orthodox fresco from the Church of the Archangel Michael at Lesnovo, North Macedonia.
- - Icon of Saint Michael (14th c., Byzantine museum). Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
- - Michael icon Athens. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
- - Icon with the Archangel Michael (14th cent.) at the Byzantine and Christian Museum on 12 April 2019. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
- - Saint Michael, attributed to Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480-1485, tempera on wood - Portland Art Museum - Portland. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
- - Archangel Michael, a 16th-century Aleppo icon. Melkite/Syrian icon of the Archangel Michael associated with Aleppo, 16th century; the Arabic-speaking Christian tradition of Michael imagery.
- - The archangle Michael icon (Uglich). Russian icon of the Archangel Michael from Uglich, 16th century.
- - Apostle Andrew and Archangel Michael. Orthodox panel icon of the Archangel Michael; the digitised icon itself, dated to the artwork.
- - Mchadijvari icon of Archangel Michael. Georgian Orthodox icon of the Archangel Michael from Mchadijvari, 16th-17th century; Georgia has one of the oldest continuous Michael cults in the Caucasus.
- - Archangel Michael, a 17th-century Coptic icon. Coptic icon of the Archangel Michael, 17th century, held in the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens.
- - Icon-of-saint-Michael-horseman-(Russia,1718). Russian icon of the Archangel Michael as the fiery horseman, dated 1718; a distinctly Russian apocalyptic type. Width slightly under 900px but the type is scarce.
- - Coptic Icon of the Archangel Michael. Coptic Orthodox panel icon of the Archangel Michael, 18th century Egypt; Michael is the most venerated angel in the Coptic calendar, commemorated monthly on the 12th of each Coptic month.
- - Synaxis of Archangel Michael, Old Believer (18 c, priv.coll). Russian Old Believer icon of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael, late 18th century.
- - Samokov-History-museum-Hristo-Dimitrov-St.Archangel-Michail-1813. Bulgarian Revival icon of St Archangel Michael by Hristo Dimitrov of the Samokov school, 1813.
- - Văcărești icon of the Archangel Michael. Romanian Orthodox icon or church painting of the Archangel Michael.
- - Djumati mikael icon. Georgian icon of the Archangel Michael from Djumati, 19th century.
- - Архангелски събор от „Свeти Архангел Михаил” в Лешко на Димитър Молеров. Bulgarian icon of the Synaxis of the Archangels by Dimitar Molerov, 1861, from the church of St Archangel Michael in Leshko.
- - Saint Luke Church, Tarnava Archangel Michael Icon-1890. Bulgarian Orthodox icon of the Archangel Michael, 1890, from St Luke's church at Tarnava.
- - Archangel Michael - St Nicholas church Velika Hoca 282N3292. Serbian Orthodox icon of the Archangel Michael in St Nicholas church, Velika Hoca, Kosovo; photographed 2008.
- - The Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. Smarthistory reads the c. 1400 Byzantine icon in the British Museum commemorating the end of iconoclasm, the event that secured icon painting itself.
- - Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition. A Met symposium on Christian, Jewish and early Muslim image-making in the Byzantine world during the seventh to ninth centuries.
- - Father Justin Sinaites on the Icons of Sinai. The librarian of Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, lectures at Villanova on the monastery's icon collection, the oldest surviving body of Christian panel painting.
- - Early Byzantine Art in Sixth-Century Constantinople. Art historian Vida Hull's lecture on sixth-century Constantinopolitan art, the milieu that produced the earliest surviving images of the archangels.
- - Reading a Coptic Icon of Archangel Michael. Deacon Hanna Gaballah Abu Saif explains the composition and symbolism of a Coptic icon of Michael. In Arabic.
- - Painting a Byzantine icon of Michael, part six. Iconographer Rade Pavlovic works through a Byzantine icon of Michael in an eight-part studio series.
- - Painting a Byzantine icon of Michael, the final part. The closing stage of Rade Pavlovic's eight-part Byzantine icon of Archangel Michael, with the final highlights and inscription.
- - Mihalkovo - St Archangel Michael Church - icon. Icon of the Archangel Michael in the village church dedicated to him at Mihalkovo, Bulgaria; photographed 2017.
- - The Russian Icons of St Michael's Cathedral, Sitka, Alaska. A museum curator on the Russian Orthodox icon collection of St Michael's Cathedral in Sitka, the historic seat of Orthodoxy in Alaska.
- - The Iconography of Archangel Michael: A Course. A Russian icon-painting course session devoted entirely to the iconographic types of Archangel Michael.
- - Painting a Byzantine Icon of Archangel Michael. Greek iconographer Taxiarchis Giannikos works through a Byzantine-canon icon of Michael in egg tempera and gold.
- - Painting an Icon of Saint Michael: Building the Layers. An icon-painting tutorial working through the pigment layers of a Saint Michael icon.
- - Painting an Icon of Saint Michael: Later Stages. An icon painter continues a Saint Michael panel, naming the specific pigments used for the archangel's face and robes.
- - Icons and Church Painting in Transylvania. A Romanian television lecture on Transylvanian icon and church painting and its mixed Brancovan and Western influences. In Romanian.
- - Sixteenth-Century Michael Frescoes at Choli, Cyprus. The unusually shaped church of the Archangel Michael at Choli near Paphos and its surviving sixteenth-century wall paintings. In Greek.
- - Perspectives on Byzantine Fashion at Dumbarton Oaks. Co-curator Elizabeth Dospel Williams introduces a Dumbarton Oaks exhibition of surviving Byzantine textiles and their colour and pattern.
- - El Greco, Last Master of the Italian Renaissance. Curator Guillaume Kientz lectures at the Meadows Museum on El Greco, the Candia-born painter who carried Byzantine training into Spanish art.
- - How to Read Angels in Painting. National Gallery fellow Joost Joustra decodes the iconography of angels in the collection, including wings, attributes and hierarchies.
- - The Basic Iconography of Saint Michael. A Spanish-language survey of Michael's standard attributes in art: armour, scales, sword and the trampled dragon.
- - Archangel Michael in the Russian Icon. A book-shelf programme reviewing a study of Michael as a subject in Russian icon painting. In Russian.
- - Byzantium and Russia: Two Intertwined Visual Cultures. Icon Museum curator Lana Sloutsky traces how the Byzantine visual language was transmitted into and transformed by Russian icon painting.
- - Introduction to Old Russian Art. A Museum of the Russian Icon lecture on how the monuments of medieval Russian painting were rediscovered and studied. In Russian.
- - In Dialogue: On Byzantine Icons at the Menil. Sacred-art specialist Richard Temple and Menil curator Clare Elliott look closely at works from the Menil's Byzantine icon collection.
- - Constantinople in Late Antiquity: Sacred Space and Urban Topography. German Archaeological Institute lecture on the sacred topography of the city founded in 330 CE, the setting of the Michaelion and the Byzantine cult of the Archangel.
- - Painting the Virtues in Early Russian Murals. Princeton medievalist Justin Willson on the cardinal virtues in early Russian mural painting and their literary sources.
- - Michael Galovic's Royal Doors. Contemporary iconographer Michael Galovic's 2021 Royal Doors, showing how the iconostasis programme is handled by a living painter.
- - Theophanes the Greek and Andrei Rublev. Kremlin Museums researcher Alexei Barkov lectures on Russian art around 1400, the moment of Theophanes the Greek and Rublev. In Russian.
- - The Synaxis of the Archangel Michael, 1704. A Rublev Museum researcher discusses a 1704 icon of the Synaxis of Michael signed by Kremlin Armoury master Kirill Ivanov Ulanov. In Russian.
- - A Seventeenth-Century Michael Icon with Scenes of His Deeds. An Andrei Rublev Museum researcher discusses four fragments of a mid-seventeenth-century Russian icon of Archangel Michael with narrative border scenes. In Russian.
- - The Byzantine Icon of the Archangel Michael in Venice. Smarthistory art historians examine the silver-gilt and cloisonne enamel icon of Michael, likely made in Constantinople around the year 1000 and now in the Treasury of San Marco.
- - Icons and Screens: A Contemporary Reading. Artist-researcher Zara Worth lectures at the Icon Museum on the visual and symbolic parallels between Orthodox icons and the smartphone.
- - An Iconographer's Last Major Work: The Icons of St Michael. Dom Joseph Marie explains the meaning of the St Michael icon cycle he spent ten years completing for an Orthodox church in California.
- - Writing an Icon of Michael: Wings and Robes. Polish iconographer Adam Sokolowski demonstrates the traditional method for painting the archangel's wings and drapery.
- - Writing an Icon of Michael: Gold, Face and Body. Adam Sokolowski completes the icon, showing gilded robes and the layered flesh painting of the face.
- - The Enigmatic Charm of Sacred Images in Byzantium. Art historian Miguel Cortes Arrese lectures at the Prado on the Byzantine sacred image, its theology and its visual conventions. In Spanish.
- - Archangel Michael, Commander of the Heavenly Host (Russian icon lecture). A Museum of the Russian Icon lecture by historian Valery Zuikov on how Russian icon painters depicted Michael across the centuries. In Russian.
- - Painting After Rublev's Archangel. An iconographer paints the hair of Archangel Michael following Andrei Rublev's celebrated icon from the Zvenigorod tier.
- - The Sixth-Century Sinai Icon with Angels. Smarthistory examines a sixth-century encaustic icon at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, among the oldest surviving Byzantine panel paintings with angels.
- - Byzantine Sacred Art in West Central Serbia. A visit to the Serbian monasteries of Zica, Studenica and Gradac and their medieval fresco programmes.
- - Orthodox Priests and Iconographers on the Archangel Michael. A documentary in which Orthodox clergy and icon painters discuss Michael's role, the nine angelic orders and the theology behind his depiction.
- - Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai. A documentary on the sixth-century Greek Orthodox monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai and the icon collection it has preserved since antiquity.
- - Russian Icon Painting in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. A course lecture on hesychasm and the flowering of Russian painting under Theophanes the Greek and Rublev, including the Novgorod frescoes. In Russian.
- - An Introduction to Georgian Art. An overview of the Georgian artistic tradition from late antiquity through the medieval kingdom.
- - Bulgaria's Boyana Church Frescoes. Associated Press footage of the thirteenth-century UNESCO-listed frescoes at Boyana church near Sofia, a landmark of medieval Bulgarian painting.
- - Medieval Georgian Wall Painting. A survey of Georgia's medieval church frescoes, a distinct Caucasian branch of the Eastern Christian painting tradition.
- - Rublev's Archangel Michael from the Zvenigorod Tier. The Andrei Rublev Museum presents Rublev's early fifteenth-century Archangel Michael, one of the supreme works of Russian icon painting. In Russian.
- - The Iconostasis Explained. An introduction to the icon screen and its standard arrangement, on which Michael and Gabriel occupy the north and south deacon doors.
- - Egg Tempera Brushwork on an Archangel. An icon academy demonstrates the layered egg-tempera strokes used to build an archangel's face in the Byzantine canon.
- - Contemporary Coptic Iconography with Stephane Rene. Dr Stephane Rene, a leading practitioner of the neo-Coptic school founded by Isaac Fanous, lectures on modern Coptic icon painting.
- - Gold Gilding for Icon Painting. A step-by-step demonstration of bole preparation and gold-leaf application, the gilded ground behind almost every Byzantine archangel.
- - From Proplasmos to Psimithies: Byzantine Icon Technique. Greek iconographer Taxiarchis Giannikos works through the full egg-tempera sequence from dark underpaint to final highlights.
- - The Revival of Coptic Iconography. Iconographer George Makary on Coptic icon painting, its ancient Egyptian inheritance and the twentieth-century neo-Coptic revival.
- - Byzantine Icons Across Time. Stanford art historian Bissera Pentcheva on the origins, form and liturgical function of the Byzantine icon from late antiquity to the present.
- - An Iconographer's Archangel Michael, Start to Finish. Greek iconographer Taxiarchis Giannikos shows the full studio process for a detailed Byzantine icon of Michael.
- - The Iconography and Symbols of Saint Michael. A breakdown of Michael's standard attributes in art - the sword, the scales and the defeated dragon - and what each signifies.
- - The Iconography of Saint Michael the Archangel. A Spanish-language talk on how the artistic tradition settled on Michael as an armed warrior and what each attribute signifies.