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Why Man Venerates Images of Angels, Even Though He is Higher than the Angels

by David Clayton on March 1, 2013 · 0 comments

From John of Damascus’s On the Divine Images
It is uncanny how often this sort of thing happens: if you read the Fathers, Scripture or the Liturgy, I find that just when I’m thinking about something I discover a passage…

Readers Give Information about Statues, Icons and the Eastern Tradition

by David Clayton on February 26, 2013 · 0 comments

Readers may remember that I have posted a couple of pieces recently featuring sacred images from the Russia that are statues (not relief carving, full 3-D images). As I mentioned, I had been under the impression that although they were…

Singing the Psalms with Victoria

by David Clayton on February 14, 2013 · 0 comments

And thinking about her in the week of her birthday
Not long ago I wrote an article in which I suggested ways of developing the cultural sensibilities of children, here. I have many blessings in my life and one is…

Some English Coptic Icons

by David Clayton on February 8, 2013 · 0 comments

Here are some neo-Coptic icons  at the Coptic Cathedral of St George at Stevenage in England.

I discovered this by trying to get hold of pictures of art by an English-Egyptian icon painter called Fadi Mikhail. He trained at the…

More Russian Statues

by David Clayton January 29, 2013

I recently posted an article about Russian statuettes of saints at the Museum of Russian Icons. I discussed how surprised I was to see statues in Russia. Generally the iconographic tradition doesn’t allow for anything more than relief sculpture. In…

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Podcast for ‘Catholic Vitamins’ about Icons

by David Clayton November 8, 2012

I was recently interviewed by Tom Fox of the Catholic Vitamins website (www.catholicvitamins.com). He wanted to talk about icons and this came under the heading of O for Orans, You can hear the interview here.
I have to admit I…

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Some Recently Completed Sacred Art

by David Clayton June 25, 2012

Here are two recently completed works of my own. The first is my own version of a Western iconography. It is Christ in Majesty and will go into the chapel at Thomas More College in Merrimack. I have created the…

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What Does It Look Like When We Participate In Christ’s Glory through the Liturgy?

by David Clayton June 1, 2012

The Transfiguration as a symbol of the liturgy and our participation in the glory of Christ
As I have written before, I recently read Jean Corbon’s book The Wellspring of the Worship. In it Fr Corbon describes how an ordered…

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A Traditional Western Icon – from the Rheinau Psalter

by David Clayton May 1, 2012

How we might re-establish Catholic traditionsin sacred art After my references to Western icons and also my assertion of the importance of re-establishing the gothic style as living traditions, people have been asking me to give examples of the images…

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Pope Gregory IV and the Mystery of the Square Halo

by David Clayton April 6, 2012

I was contacted recently by a reader, a priest who had concelebrated a Station Mass at San Marco di Campidoglio in Rome. He had notice a square halo on one of the figures in the 9th century mosaic in the…

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