Question about these icons below

CatholicZ09 · #1 Apr 21, '12, 5:57 pm

So, below I am posting a link to a church before it was renovated. The church had these two big icons of Our Lady of the Sign (left) and Jesus Christ holding the Eucharist and chalice (right). Now, has anyone ever seen these type of icons before? Who designed them? I don't know if they're considered traditional or not. Does anyone have an idea of who could have designed them? The quality is poor, so I hope you can see what I'm talking about.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=1436,1331524

Nine_Two · #2 Apr 21, '12, 6:02 pm

From what I can see of the icon of the Theotokos, it looks traditional. I've never seen an icon of Christ like that before though.

LoyalViews · #3 Apr 21, '12, 6:46 pm

They're beautiful though

CatholicZ09 · #4 Apr 21, '12, 8:06 pm

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Originally Posted by LoyalViews

They're beautiful though

They are. I need to find a color picture. They were taken down during renovation. It's a shame; they're beautiful.

ByzCathCantor · #5 Apr 21, '12, 8:32 pm

I could not tell anything about these icons from the photo in the news archive, as the quality was rather poor.

The Panagia appears to be rather traditional, from this glance, but details would have to be evident in order to determine if it were properly written to conform to iconographic standards in general, and those traditionally used for Our Lady of the Sign.

The icon of Christ was so blurry that I could not make out any of the details you noted. I will say, however, that I have never seen an icon of Christ holding a chalice.

BTW - a Polka Mass?

dzheremi · #6 Apr 21, '12, 9:24 pm

ByzCathCantor: Polka masses were a product of the 1960s-1970s, uh...liturgical expansion of the RCC, as that musical culture is traditional popular among some Central/Eastern European Catholic peoples, like the Slovenians and the Poles. Searching E-bay for "Polka Mass" music brings up 19 results for "Polka Mass" albums (some are repeats, though).

The world is an odd place.