Long since people brought into your home icons. They also appealed to them while visiting churches. The icons have a special symbolic meaning. When you want the icon, you can buy it by contacting the Pro shop.
What to consider when buying?
Making a choice, you should first pay attention to the importance of each icon and the view to which it relates. Also buyers take into account the materials used for manufacturing. The cost depends on the materials, sizes and additional points.
The types of icons. Varieties
Customers will be able to choose desktop icons. They are characterized by generally small size. Due to this, they are easy to place, easy to move. These icons are ideal not only for home but also for office.
Very often buyers choose icons for the car. They allow you to protect the driver when travelling, assist when necessary to cope with fatigue. Distinctive features are small size. This allows you to select a convenient place.
One more kind is the wall of icons. The choice of buyers are offered the icons, which are created from silver. Often marked by the presence of gilding, blackening. The icon of the small size is perfect to place it, for example, over the bed or over the table. Today, the icon becomes a wonderful gift that you can choose for the loved ones. This is a good way to show your love and recognition.
When you want to purchase the icon, it is best to contact the store that specializiruetsya on their implementation. Here each buyer can also choose the icon that best suits him. If necessary, you can contact the store that will help customers make the right choice.
For the greater convenience of customers, store icons all icons separated into several categories. For example, buyers can choose from arched icon made on wood. This material is created and square. They look very nice. Arched icon can be done on plastics.
Popular become exclusive icons. Often the choice is made in favor of silver. In the catalogs you can see the use of Swarovski stones as additional decoration.
The value of icons
When you plan such an important event in the life of two loving people, like wedding, asked to choose icons, designed specifically for this purpose. Popular among buyers are the icons that are attached to the car. If you install them in your vehicle, they will protect the driver and passengers on the road.
Thus, it is clear that the range is a specialized store includes many types of icons. According to their wishes, each buyer will be able to make the appropriate selections and then make the order on the scheduled purchase.
Iconography is the writing in the Christian tradition of icons, images of Jesus Christ, the virgin, the Holy Trinity, saints and biblical characters are given special, sacred meaning. The icon (from the Greek. eikon – image, image) connects the believer with the deity, transforms it.
Early Christianity knew no icons, only to the IV-V centuries in Palestine and other regions of the spread of Christianity affirms the tradition of drawing on wooden boards and stone cut images of Jesus Christ and the blessed Trinity. Develops in the VI century the Byzantine tradition that is closely connected with postpollination art. Byzantine icons are made in the technique of mosaic and encaustic, tempera and then "portraits of the saints." They are characterized by the frontal and static images, the austerity of the images.
After the hard times of iconoclasm (VIII – beginning of IX centuries) icon found theological understanding. The local Council of the year 842 in Constantinople was finally approved the veneration of icons. The icon is a visible image of the invisible, divine world.
The icon is deeply symbolic. The colors, gestures, objects – everything has a meaning, is a symbol. Each icon is canonical adheres to accepted Church rules and techniques images. The basic rules are: observance of certain proportions and sizes of figures; special application technique lines; reverse perspective.
To Russia, the icon came with the adoption of Orthodoxy and quickly became the subject of worship and special worship. Russian Orthodox icon, painted on wooden boards, light and mobile, was accompanied by the Russian people in the labor and feats of arms, at the party and his deathbed. Of particular importance, the icon takes the space of the temple, embedding in the hierarchical unity of its architectonics and reflecting divine order.
The icon is a sacred symbol of Russian Orthodoxy, and the Orthodoxy – the Foundation of Russian culture. The old Russian icon painting reaches peaks of artistic, spiritual and aesthetic development, appears as a sacred phenomenon of the unity of man and God. Icon – evidence of the Sophia, divine wisdom and grace, the mediator between man and God.
Its heyday of the old Russian icon reaches in XIV-XV centuries in the iconography of Rostov-Suzdal, Moscow, Pskov and Novgorod schools. Painters could only be monks and righteous men, such as, for example, outstanding ancient painters Daniel Black and Andrei Rublev. The artistic language of old Russian icon painting developed gradually and as a whole it is possible to identify the following features: shallow, flat space icons; the largest icon depicted a face (face) and eyes reflecting the light of God in the soul of the Saint portrayed; the deep symbolism, the carrier of theological meaning.
Everything depicted on the icon, carries meaning and symbolic value. Of great importance is the symbolism of colour and light. Gold color acts as a metaphor of divine grace, of the presence of God and eternity. White color – a symbol of purity, Divine light, Holy. Purple is the color of Supreme power, the Emperor, symbolizing the grandeur and royalty. The dual significance is the symbolism of the color red. On the one hand, it means love, life, energy. On the other – the passion, agony and death. Green – the color of youth, spring of eternal life. Blue (blue) color indicates purity and chastity, is an attribute of the virgin. Brown is the colour of earth and dust, carries the symbolism of the frail and temporary. Black – the color of death and evil.
Thus was formed a complex iconography, without which it is impossible to solve the mystery and grandeur of ancient iconography.
