How Signs & Symbols Speak in Icons with Christine Schlesser
Description
What do the positions of figures, colors, gestures, and symbols mean when encountering icons and Christian art? In this second lecture from the winter/spring 2025 Christian in the World lecture series, Christine Schlesser shares how to read an icon and discover how artwork can be a revelation of the mystery of God.
Christine Schlesser is the Executive Director of the Classical Iconography Institute. Based in Portland, Oregon, the Classical Iconography Institute is a fine arts educational nonprofit dedicated to teaching the ancient method of egg tempera iconography to preserve one of the oldest, traditional cultural sacred arts of the ancient Christian East and West.
Learn more at https://classicaliconography.org/.
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