As is indicated by the inscription in Greek at top left, this icon depicts St Simeon Stylites.
William Burges, 'St. Simeon Stylites', a drawing illustrating Tennyson's poem. 1861. Signed with monogram WB. Pen and Ink.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved >>> Please note that any Invitations for the groups “A+++ Photo” , “Perfect Photographer Award ” are NOT welcome and will not be accepted. <<< My last travel in Syria (and only 8 hours in Istanbul...) "The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites (Arabic: كنيسة مار سمعان العمودي knīset mār semʕān l-ʕamūdī) is a well preserved church that dates back to the 5th century, located about 30 km northwest of Aleppo, Syria. It is built on the site of the pillar of St. Simeon Stylites, a famed hermit monk." "St. Simeon's pillar (on the left) can still be seen in the center of the courtyard, although it is now only a 2 meter-high boulder due to centuries of relic-gathering by pilgrims." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Simeon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites
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Ikonen zijn schilderingen op houten panelen, met afbeeldingen van Christus, de Moeder Gods, heiligen en gebeurtenissen uit de bijbelse boeken. Ze worden gebruikt in kerken die de Byzantijnse ritus volgen, een zeer oude en autenthieke manier van lofprijzing. Zulke kerken zijn er niet alleen in Rusland en Griekenland, maar ook ...
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Saint Simeon Stylites
Was a Syrian Christian ascetic, who achieved notability by living 37 years on a small platform on top of a pillar near Aleppo (in modern Syria). Simeon inspired many imitators. For the next century, ascetics living on pillars, stylites, were a common sight throughout the Christian Levant.
Standing lamps decorated with crosses and supported on footed bases were common in the early Byzantine world. Bishop Theodoret of Cyrrhus in Syria (d. ca. 466) described Saint Symeon Stylites, who lived atop a column, as “this dazzling lamp, [who] as if placed on a lampstand, has sent out rays in all directions likes the sun
Today we take the word “icon” to mean “a sign,” or we equate it with portraits of Christ and the saints. In The Sensual Icon, Bissera Pentcheva demonstrates how icons originally manifested the presence of the Holy Spirit in matter. Christ was the ideal icon, emerging through the Incarnation; so, too, were the bodies of the stylites (column-saints) penetrated by the divine pneuma (breath or spirit), or the Eucharist, or the Justinianic space of Hagia Sophia filled with the reverberations of chants and the smoke of incense. Iconoclasm (726–843) challenged these Spirit-centered definitions of the icon, eventually restricting the word to mean only the lifeless imprint (typos) of Christ’s visual characteristics on matter.
saint simeon pilgrimage church 476AD - 491AD. the hermit, simeon stylites, was a religious nutter who spent 37 years of his life atop a pillar, promoting by his example asceticism and the conscious neglect and even destruction of the physical self - in fact, just about everything that was wrong with early christianity. the east roman emperors very cleverly contributed to his cult, no doubt to contain the christian fanatics, the taliban of their day, who at the very same time were tearing down the monuments of rome in order to fulfill the prophecies in revelation. this great pilgrimage church was built around his pillar with four basilicas opening up onto a central octagon, thus combining the two building types that were later to characterize the east and the west church. it is one of the finest buildings of the 5th century, otherwise mostly known for its defensive structures following the collapse of the pax romana, and its imperial splendour still visible today completely negates the message of its dedicatee. it is the empire strikes back - with the cunning use of the classical orders... the western basilica, seen here from the octagon through the portal, ends in a great terrace with a loggia built on an artificial platform. the view is stunning but the whole conception seems to me to be more palatial than ecclesiastical. more words, yada, yada, yada.
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