The first Orthodox icons

But modern Greek painter does not always follow the traditional techniques, they painted Byzantine icon painter than to appear to be more humble places rough. Many works of fancy color, depicting withered open contour stiff, characters and backgrounds look like a detachment. One of the most prominent Greek icon painter named Spiros Carl Zama Gisborne, characterized her iconography depicting precise, vivid colors, but with many modern icon painting is different is not fancy.

Employing thought and imagination are difficult to grasp things more difficult image to show up. But in the history of Christian art and icon painting, and gradually formed the image of the three angels of God's manifestation of the Trinity tradition. Three angels to Abraham's hospitality was spot paintings of Abraham appeared very early. Which is based on the Bible; "The Lord of Moreh in Mamre, as Abraham emerged when the heat of Abraham alas tent door, looked up, has three men standing nearby.

When he saw them, he ran to meet them, and fell to the ground, said from the tent door; 'My Lord, if I have found favor in your eyes, I beg you not to leave your servant. Let a little water, and wash your feet, and rest under this tree.

I get you something to eat, you can add days at heart, then go ahead. Since you to his servant, rightly so. "They say; 'do as you say okay!" Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah and said: Abraham ran to the herd and his hair. "You come quickly to take three measures of fine flour and knead bread." choice, tender calf and gave a servant, who hurried to prepare it.

After iconoclasm, Abraham hospitality paintings of Byzantine art is widely popular again. In the composition of these paintings, out there beyond the three angels to Abraham, his wife Sarah and the image of a servant, but the character of the position is different, some of the patriarch Abraham and Sarah at the front, some on the side of not between angels, there appears on the small screen.

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