Online Journal for Iconography

Author - Stamatis Skliris

Fertile Roots Ideas • Vol. 4 (Summer) 2019

On the Changing Nature of Forms

by Stamatis Skliris

Heart of the Icon • Vol. 4 (Summer) 2019

Christ Pantocrator

by Stamatis Skliris

Poetics of Icon • Vol. 3 (Winter) 2019

Asymmetric Symmetry of the Being

by Stamatis Skliris

Vol. 2 (Spring) 2018

Heavenly Christ – Who is Winning and Who will win

by Stamatis Skliris

Heart of the Icon • Vol. 1 (Autumn) 2017

The Poetics of the Icon

by Stamatis Skliris

Fertile Roots Ideas • Vol. 1 (Autumn) 2017

Girl with a Brooch

by Stamatis Skliris

Truth in Art • Vol. 1 (Autumn) 2017

Surrealist Elements in Byzantine Painting

by Stamatis Skliris

Heart of the Icon • Vol. 1 (Autumn) 2017

Painting the Icons of the Saints

by Stamatis Skliris

Fertile Roots Ideas • Vol. 1 (Autumn) 2017

Saint Panteleimon, egg-tempera on board

by Stamatis Skliris

The heart of the icon is located behind, not in front of the official curtain. The heart of the icon is the depicted Saint himself, and not the drawing or its color. We are presenting ideas that have fertile roots. The principle (the canon) is the uniqueness of a person and nothing more. There is always space for the originality of iconographic themes. You can always express something old in a new way. The heart of the icon beats in Paradise. It is the source of the circulating blood and life within each icon. This idea promotes poetic creativity, rather than elaborate studies. Send us sketches, unfinished drawings, or pictures so that we may publish them before they're done!