Message from @Byzas
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I too always picture Mary as a High-Middle Ages knight with a cross
I recommened this translated page describing the history of the icon
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2F3rm.info%2Fpublications%2F31318-ikona-presvyatoy-bogorodicy-russkaya-vzbrannaya-voevoda.html
Fascinating.
I did a thing https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/themewx/sleigh-ride
St Joseph with the Christ child
Sankt Niklaus von Flüe
Tomb of St. Stephen the Great, Prince of Moldavia, cousin of Vlad the Impaler
Wow. I can really see the family resemblance.
> inb4 "muh divine simplicity" cannot fathom 1 Jn. 4:12 and Jn 1:18 being compatible
did you just write that the father is the essence?
Divine simplicity is not a concept that accepts gradation. It's a very simple concept.
The entire upper part, with the graph, is labelled as "essence"
10 year difference
> be me
> not bound to Moscow Council
> West is Best
> makes icon of Trinity because depicting the Father isn't heresy
> 🙂
Ay!
Now the painted version with gold leaf
Orrrrrr I'll just frame it lol
looks like a gnostic emanation graph but drawn with emojis
Except it's all Christian symbols and colors that have been traditionally used in icons...
I see no human persons in this alleged icon.
A bunch of disks, a book, a water drop, gadolig sagraments, and muh keys
When God made Adam out of the clay, he didn't make him into an emoji
Neither did Christ incarnate as an emoji
Icons aren't nominalist representations, they're symbolic since they're pointing to divine reality, and the likeness of humanity is important in icons because man was made in God's image
I wouldn't call this painting an icon though
The green text was a meme
Alright then