Icon Network

The Stone and Lion. St. Peter and St. Mark in the Oriental Christianity

Icon Network — 2010-08-25T13:03:34Z

Until10 October in Vicenza, Gallery of Palazzo Leoni Montanari.
Exhibition :
"The Stone and Leo St. Peter and St. Mark in the Oriental Christianity".
From june 5th until october 10th 2010
The show file (twelve precious tables) presents Icons representing saints Peter and Mark, characters that are very rare in the iconography of the Christian orient, contrary to what happens in Western Christianity. LA PIETRA E IL LEONE. SAN PIETRO E SAN MARCO NELL'ORIENTE CRISTIANO
La mostra-dossier (...) - 1. Current / Up Coming

Conservation and the Eastern Mediterranean

Icon Network — 2010-08-25T12:35:56Z

IIC 2010: Technical Programme
‘Conservation and the Eastern Mediterranean' encompasses not only a huge geographic area, but layer upon layer of cultures and religions, sites that have been in continuous use and those razed or abandoned and then excavated, and every type of object, many still fulfilling their original functions and many dispersed in international collections. The conservation profession's response to the topic was as enthusiastic as it is varied. There are common themes: (...) - 1. Current / Up Coming

Sacred Faces - Icons in Oxford

Icon Network — 2010-08-25T12:10:55Z

Sacred Faces - Icons in Oxford
25th August -19th December 2010
Icons are used in the Eastern Orthodox Church to focus worshippers' prayers. Their form and function have hardly changed over the last fifteen centuries and their spiritual message is retained even in a museum setting. This exhibition will show Greek and Russian icons from the Picture Gallery and the Ashmolean Museum which are normally not on view. Among them are St George and the Dragon from around 1500 which has just been (...) - 1. Current / Up Coming

Integrated Analytical Study for the Authentication of Five Russian Icons (XVI–XVII centuries)

Icon Network — 2010-08-09T15:42:03Z

BY IRINA CRINA ANCA SANDU,1* SUSANNA BRACCI,2 ION SANDU,3 AND MARIELLA LOBEFARO4 1 REQUIMTE – Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT) of the NOVA University of Lisbon (UNL), Department of Conservation and Restoration, Campus da Caparica, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal 2 Istituto per la Conservazione e la Valorizzazione dei Beni Culturali (ICVBC-CNR), Via Madonna del Piano, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Florence, Italy 3 ‘‘Al. I.Cuza'' University of Iasi, Arheoinvest (...) - 1. Technical Research

Non-invasive measurements of damage of frescoes paintings and icon by Laser Scanning Vibrometer: experimental results on artificial samples using different types of structural exciters

Icon Network — 2010-08-09T15:16:15Z

Paolo Castellini, Enrico Esposito, Nicola Paone, Enrico P. Tomasini
Dipartimento di Meccanica, Università di Ancona Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona - ITALY Phone: +39-71-2204487, Fax: +39-71-2204813 E-mail: tomasini@mehp1.cineca.it
Corresponding Author Contact: Email:aivela@mehp1.unian.it
6th World Conference on NDT and Microanalysis in Diagnostics and Conservation of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, Rome, 1999 May. Published by AIPnD, email: aipnd@numerica.it
Abstract
Frescoes and (...) - 1. Technical Research

Conservation-Restoration Education in Ukraine

Icon Network — 2010-08-09T15:09:06Z

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE , KIEV
by Tetyana Tymchenko and Valentyna Volnyevicz
Today the Sub-faculty of Technique and Restoration of Art Works at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture trains experts in two lines: "restoration of easel painting works" and "restoration of sculpture and decorative-applied art works". The training lasts 6 years, during 5 of which the students draw and paint human figures from life. For those students who are trained in (...) - 3. Academies, schools & universities

_"The Glory of Ukraine: Sacred Images from the 11th to the 19th Centuries,"

Icon Network — 2010-08-06T15:01:57Z

Sacred Images & Golden Treasures, two exhibitions, five cities, 2010-2011
First Exhibition opens in New York City, June 17, runs through September 12, 2010
Foundation for International Arts & Education (FIAE) in cooperation with the U.S.-_Ukraine Business Council (USUBC) and support from the Embassy of Ukraine to the USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. - "The Glory of Ukraine," two major art and cultural exhibitions featuring rare and historic treasures from Ukraine, will be presented in five cities in (...) - 1. Current / Up Coming

SYNAXIS.

2010-08-06T14:55:43Z

“Synaxis” is the name of an exhibition running at Moscow's Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts from mid-July till the end of September. It invites you into the world of Orthodox icon painting of the 15th-20th centuries.
The exhibition had travelled 20 cities from Seoul to Lima before coming to Moscow, its 21st venue but so far the only one where icons of the Greek and Russian schools shared floor space. A total of more than 130 icons are on display, nearly three times more than at similar (...) - 1. Current / Up Coming

Fotis Kontoglou and the Modern Greek Painting

2010-08-06T14:21:31Z

From the book "In Memoriam of Kontoglou", publishing house Astir, Al. & E. Papadimitriou, Athens, 1975. Translated from Greek by Helen Mathioudakis. - 4. Art History

Conservation of a Greek Icon. Technological and Methodological Aspects

Icon Network — 2010-08-06T12:02:07Z

This work describes the study and conservation of an icon from the eighteenth century provenient from the private Valadorou collection, now belonging to the Benaki Museum of Athens._The icon studied will be presented with a group of other icons from the same collection in an itinerary route of exhibitions foreseen to start in Romania in October 2008._In this paper, the major concern was to understand the construction of the icon and to identify the various materials used by analytical (...) - 1. Technical Research