After looking at a lot of Orthodox iconography, both Eastern and Western (and Coptic and Ethiopian), I was wondering if there is any guide to the various styles of Medieval art. There's really quite a bit of diversity.
Also, Medieval art general.
This is Romaneque style (currently being revived in some Western Orthodox parishes)
Don't know what this style is called, but I've seen some Romanian icons using it
I recently came across this, thought it was really interesting how it imitates medieval style
>>604261
That's a Coptic icon, all their icons are in that style.
Here's some Coptic medieval.
>>604269
Le shocker?
>>604269
Some more
>>604270
contemporary Coptic icon
This isn't Medieval, it's contemporary French Orthodox, but I really like it.
was the fact they all look like cartoons an "emperor's new clothes" thing or did everyone realize the drawings sucked and they were some stylized abstract thing so anyone could imitate them
Here's some Medieval Celtic art
>>604240
Neat, I have seen that style before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bvwzeuyx4E
Do you know what sort of chant is used in Western-rite Orthodoxy?
>>604281
The style was intentional. For instance, this is a 6th Century Byzantine icon, which as you can see is a more sophisticated style. People could do it, but did not because it generally detracted from the point of the art (in this case, it really added to it, because the duality of Christ is conveyed strikingly).
>>604293
Pic related is a 6th Century Coptic icon that opted for a more realistic approach
>>604287
Depends on the Rite, but what I've heard sounds in the vein of the Templar's Chant
With The Canterbury Tales for more fun.
And the kicker.
>>604305
The Twelve Apostles were representative of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
>>604287
>The Mozarabic Rite, also called the Visigothic Rite or Hispanic Rite, is a form of Christian worship within the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, the Western Rite liturgical family of the Orthodox Church and in the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church.[1]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqwqb6I7vrY
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkC-ObsdcSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwtBd6vmP08
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHSfSQt0iK4
There is some singing inbetweens, like in the second link.
>>604330
I'm pretty sure that's all Roman Catholic Mozarabic though, because they use an organ.
Orthodox Mozarabic is more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6CbYG3DSPY
>>604318
<--What about this?
Did all 12 tribes have followers of Jesus spring from them, or is it just romantic thinking? This art is arguably later than medieval.
Que famoso!
>>604375
I don't know what that is supposed to be, but the Body of Christ is literally the Church which is literal Israel. Israel had twelve sons, each the head of a tribe.
>>604330
Thank you! I have heard Mozarabic chant before, but I thought that it was only Catholics who used it.
>>604382
Ancient Coptic icon
>>604389
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfxpbohz0ek
>>604387
I see your doxology and I raise you Byzantium.
Now we may both sit among the rubble.
Go see the conquered Greeks for your pottery shard.
>>604434
Dammit "dogma" not doxology. Job's wife would be so disappointed.
>>604434
TURGIS :DDD
Coptic, John the Baptist
Ethiopian
>>604487
For pic
>>604453
>coptic icon
>arabic text
a simple search reveals it to be syrian greek orthodox
>>604614
No, it's Coptic (II just confirmed with a search). Greek Orthodox is Byzantine style, which looks like pic related.
Coptics very frequently use Arabic just like Greek Orthodox in America frequently use English.
>tfw beautiful
>>604447
Now I know where this is came from
>>604261
a touching tribute
Abuna Yemata Church in Ethiopia
I have the National Geographic issue where this picture is from.
>>604140
literally any half-decent book about medieval art
Something about medieval art reminds me of death
>>606777
lol
>>606836
Ethopian Orthodox are pretty interesting though. They were Jewish Ethiopians who converted to Christianity, so they still circumcise and keep kosher. They have the largest Biblical canon of any Church (81 books).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgJQMz8elwA
A church near my university.
Dumping sublime Ebbo Gospels
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>>607166
Exterior. So pretty. I have to visit for mass one day.
More Ethiopian
>>604140
Probably the first thread you make that doesn't suck
>>604382
christ-kun kawaii~
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>>604293
I love early Byzantine style. It truly contained the last vestiges of classical Greco-Roman panel painting despite the strokes getting broader and the forms becoming more abstracted.
