Stefan Arteni

Christ Climbing Up Onto The Cross A Visual Essay

St Demetrios church, Suceava. Romania, 16th century

SOLINVICTUS PRESS 2011

St Nicholas church, Prilep, 12th -13th centuries http://www.orthodoxyicons.com/uploads/posts/2011-04/1302285123_st.-nicholas-in-prilep-031.jpg

St Nicholas church, Prilep, 12th -13th centuries http://www.orthodoxyicons.com/serbianfrescoes/188-frescoes-of-the-church-of-st-nicholas-in-prilep-xii-xiii-centuriesmacedonia.html

Detail, St Nicholas church, Prilep, 12th -13th centuries http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/serbianfrescoes/189-frescoes-of-the-church-of-st-nicholas-in-prilep-xiixiii-centuries-macedonia-part-ii.html

St Clement (Theotokos Peribleptos) church, Ohrid, Macedonia, 13th century http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/serbianfrescoes/110-the-frescoes-of-the-churchperivlepty-ohrid-macedonia-1295-part-vii.html

Old Nagorichno St George church, 12th 14th centuries http://www.orthodoxyicons.com/serbianfrescoes/120-frescoes-old-nagorichno-12-14-centuries-macedoniapart-iii.html

Old Nagorichno St George church, 12th 14th centuries http://www.orthodoxyicons.com/serbianfrescoes/121-frescoes-old-nagorichno-12-14-centuries-macedoniapart-iv.html

Old Nagorichno St George church, 12th 14th centuries http://www.orthodoxyicons.com/serbianfrescoes/122-frescoes-old-nagorichno-12-14-centuries-macedoniapart-v.html

Old Nagorichno St George church, 12th 14th centuries http://www.orthodoxyicons.com/serbianfrescoes/120-frescoes-old-nagorichno-12-14-centuries-macedoniapart-iii.html

Pacino di Bonaguida, Morgan Codex, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 14th century

Monastero di Clausura di Monache Benedettine di S.Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara, Italy, 14th century

Deani monastery, Serbia/Kosovo, 14th century http://www.srpskobl ago.org/Archives/D ecani/exhibits/Fresc oes/UndertheDome /WestArch/index_1. html

Detail of the fresco above, Deani monastery, Serbia/Kosovo, 14th century http://www.srpskobla go.org/Archives/Dec ani/exhibits/Frescoe s/UndertheDome/W estArch/index_1.htm l

St Demetrios church, Suceava, Romania, 16th century

Detail of the fresco above, St Demetrios church, Suceava, Romania, 16th century http://picasaweb.google.com/ddmunteanu/OPICTURADEEXCEPTIEBisericaSfDumitruS uceavaAltarNaos#

Varlaam monastery, Meteora, Greece, Frangos Katelanos of Thebes and/or George and Frangos Kondares of Thebes (?), 16th cemtury

Varlaam monastery, Meteora, Greece, Frangos Katelanos of Thebes and/or George and Frangos Kondares of Thebes (?), 16th century, photo Nano Sanchez

St Nikita (Nicetas) church, 1320, Banjani, Macedonia http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/serbianfrescoes/184frescoes-of-the-church-of-st-nikita-serbia-1320-part-iv.html

St Nikita (Nicetas) church, 1320, Banjani, Macedonia http://www.orthodoxyicons.com/serbianfrescoes/183-frescoes-of-the-church-of-st-nikita-serbia-1320-partiii.html

http://www.orthodoxyicons.com/frescosingreece/461the-frescoes-of-the-st-nicholasolympia-greece-part-ii.html

St Nicholas the Orphan church, Thessaloniki, Greece, 14th century http://www.orthodoxyicons.com/frescosingreece/462the-frescoes-of-the-st-nicholasolympia-greece-part-iii.html

Detail, St Nicholas the Orphan church, Thessaloniki, Greece, 14th century http://www.orthodoxyicons.com/frescosingreece /464-the-frescoes-of-thest-nicholas-olympiagreece-part-v.html

Cozia monastery, Holy Trinity church, Romania, 14th century http://picasaweb.google.com/angel13rac/ManastireaCozia#

Cozia monastery, Holy Trinity church, Romania, 14th century http://amfostacolo.ro/

Transfiguration church, Yaroslavl, 15th century http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/muralsofoldrussia/178-painting-churches-of-yaroslavl.html

Transfiguration church, Yaroslav, 15th century http://www.orthodoxyicons.com/muralsofoldrussia/179-painting-churches-of-yaroslavl-part-ii.html

Taxiarches Metropoleos church, Kastoria, 10th 15th centuries http://www.ort hodoxyicons.com/by zantineicons/422byzantineiconography.h tml

Novgorod, 15th century http://www.obraz.org/index.php?menu=chronology&c_id=14&icon_id=10

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefbra/3820283568/

Probota monastery, St Nicholas church, Romania, 16th century

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Probota monastery, St Nicholas church, Romania, 16th century divinabucovina.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

Probota monastery, St Nicholas church,Romania, 16th century

Detail, Probota monastery, St Nicholas church, Romania, 16th century

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St John the New monastery, St George church, Suceava, Romania, 16th century

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Detail of the fresco above, St John the New monastery, St George church, Suceava, Romania, 16th century picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/k66IdtgIsSflZWbMxL6Gzw

Vorone monastery, St George church, Romania, 15th century amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?hotel=manastirea-voronet-...

Vorone monastery, St George church, Romania, 15th century http://www.flickr.com/ph otos/marianogarciamg/ 3264500498/

Detail, Vorone monastery, St George church, Romania, 15th century

St Cyril Belozersky museum, Russia http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/russianorthodoxicons/413-russian-icon-of-stcyril-belozersky-museum-part-v.html

Fresco and detail, Descent of the Holy Spirit church, Dragomirna monastery, Romania, Popa Crciun Mtie, Popa Ignat and Gregorie zographers, early 17th century https://picasaweb.google.com/10835870773381 2615211/Dragomirna#