Online Journal for Iconography

Iconic Ontology

Fertile Roots Ideas • Iconic Ontology • Poetics of Icon • Vol. 11 (Spring) 2024

Stephen of Dechani: The Knightly Saint

by Stamatis Skliris

Iconic Ontology • Painting Diary • Poetics of Icon • Vol. 11 (Spring) 2024

The Iconic Gaze: A Theology of Thearchic Weakness and Divine Love

by Stamatis Skliris

Iconic Ontology • Vol. 2 (Spring) 2018

Icon and Digital Iconicity

by Maxim Vasiljevic

Iconic Ontology • Vol. 1 (Autumn) 2017

Writing the Icons of the Iconostasis Today

by Giorgos Mylonas

Iconic Ontology • Vol. 1 (Autumn) 2017

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!