stefan arteni

iconostases
a visual essay
Rock-cut church, Goreme, Rock-cut church, Goreme, Turkey,
I
Turkey, ca 11th century? ca 11th century?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/akt ?http://www.flickr.com/photos/30947872
kbk/453681420/ @N06/3000859407/

solinvictus press 2011

St Nicholas princely court church, built in the 14th century, Curtea de Arges, Romania
travel.webshots.com/photo/2985416310054959541inavgH
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/alsupsworldtravels/3303049929/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davearoundthew
orld/3955360191/in/photostream/

Rock-cut church and detail (Snake

church), Goreme, Turkey, ca 11th
century?
 http://www.goreme.org/churches/catherine/catherine1.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/koons/5378919522/in/photostream/

Rock-cut church and detail (St Catherine chapel), Goreme,

Turkey, ca 11th century?
Panagia
Ekatontapyliani
church, Paros,
Greece, founded
in the 4th – 6th
centuries?
picasaweb.googl
e.com/lh/photo/A
9lXCK8PELvD0
DG1W2TAiA
Panagia Ekatontapyliani church,
iconostasis in the northern wing
chapel, Paros, Greece, founded in
the 4th – 6th centuries?
Hosios Loukas monastery,
Greece, 10th-11th centuries
 Panagia tis
Asinou church,
Nikitari, Cyprus,
built ca 1099 AD

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mon
tindopac/5411072499/

picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/4f7k0Ah9N9zgBQ3vch2SnQ
St John the Theologian monastery, Patmos, founded in the 11th century (the Apocalypse
cave) http://www.patmosmonastery.gr/Apokalipsi.html
St John the Theologian monastery, Patmos, founded in the 11th century www.rizzuti.org/Grecia/Apocalisse.htm
St Sophia
church, Ohrid,
Macedonia, built
in the 11th
century
http://www.flickr.c
om/photos/graha
mspicer/2868545
960/
St Sophia church, Ohrid, Macedonia, built in the 11th century http://www.flickr.com/photos/grahamspicer/2868545952/
Chiesa di Santa Maria in Valle Porclaneta, Magliano dei Marsi, Abruzzo, Italy, 12th -13th centuries
www.geometriefluide.com/pagina.asp?cat=i&prod=iconostasi-gloss
 St John church, Mani, Peloponnese, Greece
http://www.flickr.com/photos/supair/3861483027/in/set-72157622157783644/
 A church in Mani, Peloponnese, Greece
http://www.flickr.com/photos/supair/3861240523/in/set-72157622157783644/
Detail, a church in
Mani, Peloponnese,
Greece
http://www.flickr.co
m/photos/supair/38
61240523/in/set-
721576221577836
44/
Panagia
Faneromeni
church, Mani,
Peloponnese,
Greece
http://www.flickr.co
m/photos/supair/38
61551143/in/set-
721576221577836
44/
 Detail, Panagia Faneromeni church, Mani, Peloponnese, Greece
http://www.flickr.com/photos/supair/3862153486/in/set-72157622157783644/
Detail, Panagia
Faneromeni
church, Mani,
Peloponnese,
Greece
http://www.flickr.co
m/photos/supair/38
61551957/in/set-
721576221577836
44/
 Khintsvisi, Georgia, 13th century
http://rolfgross.dreamhosters.com/Georgia-
Web/Khintsvisi/Khintsvisi.htm
St Nicholas
church, Densus,
Romania, built in
the 13th century
www.romanianhi
storyandculture.c
om/vlachtransylv
ania.htm
Aghii Apostoli Eleoussas church, Kastoria, Greece
www.windmillstravel.com/album.php?id=49&destinati
on=31&destina...

Panagia tou Moutoulla church, Cyprus,

built in the 13th – 14th centuries
www.mlahanas.de/Cyprus/Geo/Moutoullas05.html
St George church, Staro Nagoricane monastery, Montenegro, 11th – 14th centuries
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoyanaskova/4296740918/
Detail,
St George
church, Staro
Nagoricane
monastery,
Montenegro,
11th – 14th
centuries
http://i288.photo
bucket.com/alb
ums/ll164/volan
skopje/27Large-
1.jpg
 Patriarchate of Pec, church of St Demetrios, 14th century
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Pec/exhibits/StDemetriosChurch/282N1886.html
 Patriarchate of Pec, church of St Demetrios, 14th century
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Pec/exhibits/StDemetriosChurch/Interior/index.html
 Detail, patriarchate of Pec, church of St Demetrios, 14th century
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Pec/exhibits/StDemetriosChurch/Interior/index.html
Detail, patriarchate
of Pec, church of St
Demetrios, 14th
century
http://www.srpskobl
ago.org/Archives/Pe
c/exhibits/StDemetri
osChurch/Interior/in
dex.html
Detail, patriarchate
of Pec, church of
St Demetrios, 14th
century
http://www.srpskob
lago.org/Archives/
Pec/exhibits/StDe
metriosChurch/Inte
rior/index.html
Patriarchate of
Pec,
church of the
Virgin,
14th century
 Patriarchate of Pec, church of the Apostles, built in the 14th century
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Pec/exhibits/StApostlesChurch/Interior/index.html
 Patriarchate of Pec, church of the Apostles, built in the 14th century
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Pec/exhibits/StApostlesChurch/Interior/index.html
 Patriarchate of Pec, church of the Apostles, built in the 14th century
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Pec/exhibits/StApostlesChurch/Interior/index.html
 Patriarchate of Pec, church of the Apostles, built in the 14th century
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Pec/exhibits/StApostlesChurch/Interior/index.html
Cotmeana monastery, the old church, Romania, 14th century amfostacolo.ro/romania-pareri,15/alte-locuri,95,1249/manastiri...
Cotmeana monastery, the old church, Romania, 14th century www.galeriafoto.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/90566/si/TEI
Cotmeana monastery, the old church, Romania, 14th century http://www.flickr.com/photos/34415390@N03/3518988047/
Detail, Cotmeana monastery, the old church, Romania,14th century www.galeriafoto.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/90566/si/TEI
St Nicolas princely court church, Curtea de Arges, Romania, built in the 14th century amfostacolo.ro/romania-pareri,15/curtea-de-arges,95,1248/desco...
Detail, St Nicholas princely court church, built in the 14th century, Curtea de Arges, Romania amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?regiune=muntenia-oltenia-...
St Nicholas princely
court church, built
in the 14th century,
Curtea de Arges,
Romania
http://www.flickr.co
m/photos/fusion_of
_horizons/3643738
657/
St Nicholas princely court church, built in the 14th century, Curtea de Arges, Romania amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?hotel=descopera-curtea-de...
St Nicholas princely court
church, built in the 14th
century, Curtea de Arges,
Romania
travel.webshots.com/photo/
2985416310054959541ina
vgH
Detail, St Nicholas princely court church, built in the 14th century, Curtea de Arges, Romania amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?regiune=muntenia-oltenia-...
Detail, St Nicholas princely court church, built in the 14th century, Curtea de Arges, Romania amfostacolo.ro/poze-
fotoimpresii.php?regiune=muntenia-oltenia-...
Detail, St Nicholas princely court church, built in the 14th century, Curtea de Arges, Romania amfostacolo.ro/romania-
pareri,15/curtea-de-arges,95,1248/desco...
Detail, St Nicholas princely court church, built in the 14th century, Curtea de Arges, Romania amfostacolo.ro/poze-
fotoimpresii.php?regiune=muntenia-oltenia-...
St Nicholas
princely court
church, built in
the 14th century,
Curtea de
Arges, Romania
http://www.flickr.
com/photos/mak
emydinner/8947
66366/
Detail, St
Nicholas
princely court
church, built in
the 14th
century,
Curtea de
Arges,
Romania
amfostacolo.ro
/poze-
fotoimpresii.ph
p?hotel=desco
pera-curtea-
de...
Detail, St Nicholas princely court church, built in the 14th century, Curtea de Arges, Romania amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?regiune=muntenia-oltenia-...
Detail, St Nicholas princely court church, built in the 14th century, Curtea de Arges, Romania amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?regiune=muntenia-oltenia-...
Detail, St Nicholas princely court church, built in the 14th century, Curtea de Arges, Romania
amfostacolo.ro/romania-pareri,15/curtea-de-arges,95,1248/desco...
S Maria
Assunta,
Torcello, Italy,
7th – 15th
centuries
http://www.flickr.
com/photos/uhal
de/3044876505/i
n/photostream/
Archangel
Michael church,
Sarakina, Crete,
Greece, 14th
century ?
http://www.flickr.c
om/photos/mickm
ct/3780157135/in
/set-
72157614532411
207/
Panagia Katholiki
church, Kouklia
village, Paphos,
Cyprus, built in the
12th century?
http://www.flickr.com/
photos/philphotograp
hy/1798573803/
Agios Ioannis Lampadistis monastery, Cyprus, built in the 10th - 15th centuries?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7563117@N04/4856775852/
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/88548072@N00/4730425588/#

Borac church, Serbia, built in the 14th century photo Ranko Tomih
Borac church, Serbia, built in the 14th century, iconostasis fragment
blog.traveltheunknown.com/2009_07_01_archive.html
Wood church,
iconostasis
fragments,
15th century,
Russia, now in the
Ferapontov
museum
http://www.flickr.co
m/photos/andrewgo
uld/3644530820/
Solovetskiy iconostasis, fragment, 15th century?, Tamoikin museum, Russia
www.iconsexplained.com/iec/iec_iconostasis2.htm
 Archangels cathedral, Moscow Kremlin,
Russia, 16th century
www.iconsexplained.com/iec/iec_iconostasis
2.htm
Detail, Archangels cathedral, Moscow Kremlin, Russia, 16th century http://www.flickr.com/photos/cercamon/4195032509/
Church of the Deposition of the Virgin's
Robe, Moscow Kremlin, Russia, 15th -
17th centuries
travel.webshots.com/photo/107138499
2015002602vXYtQg
Annunciation cathedral, Moscow Kremlin, Russia, 15th -19th centuries travel.webshots.com/photo/1071277817015002602FKyQFT
 Dormition cathedral, Moscow Kremlin, Russia, 15th -19th centuries
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daumesnil/sets/72157622053808180/with/3826763990/
Royal Doors,
Dormition
cathedral,
Moscow Kremlin,
Russia, 15th -19th
centuries
http://www.flickr.c
om/photos/adrian
clark/767409/
St Nicholas
church,
Caluiu monastery,
Romania,
built in the 16th
century
http://www.monu
menteromania.ro/i
ndex.php/monum
ente/detalii/ro/Bise
rica%20Sf.%20Ni
colae%20/15439/
15438
Detail, St Nicholas church, Caluiu monastery, Romania, built in the 16th century
Detail, St Nicholas church, Caluiu monastery, Romania, built in the 16th century
Bucovat (Cosuna)
monastery,
Romania,
built in the 16th
century
http://www.monu
menteromania.ro/i
ndex.php/monum
ente/detalii/ro/Bis
erica%20Sf.%20N
icolae/10100
Iconostasis, Onufri church museum, Berat, Albania, Onufri zographer, 16th century,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36338186@N05/3398278682/in/photostream/
Iconostasis
detail, Onufri
church museum,
Berat, Albania,
Onufri zographer,
16th century,
http://www.flickr.c
om/photos/36338
186@N05/33982
78682/in/photostr
eam/
Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel old church, Sarajevo, Bosnia, built in the 16th century? photo Christian Bickel
Detail, Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel old church, Sarajevo, Bosnia, built in the 16th century? photo Christian Bickel
Detail, Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel old church, Sarajevo, Bosnia, built in the 16th century? photo Christian Bickel
Detail, Holy
Archangels Michael
and Gabriel old
church, Sarajevo,
Bosnia, built in the
16th century? photo
Christian Bickel
Royal Doors,
Russia, 16th century
http://www.obraz.org/index
.php?menu=iconography&
base=7&struct=257&icon_
id=442
Portable iconostasis, fragment, Russia, 1600
http://www.laparoledivine.net/archives/279 Royal Doors fragment, Russia, 17th century
Pestera Liliecilor rock-cut church, Romania http://savalaura.blogspot.com/2008/07/din-nou-la-manastirea-bistrita-la.html
Detail, Pestera Liliecilor rock-cut church, Romania http://savalaura.blogspot.com/2008/07/din-nou-la-manastirea-bistrita-la.html
Detail, Pestera
Liliecilor rock-cut
church, Romania
http://www.flickr.c
om/photos/norida
/3622069918/
Detail, Pestera Liliecilor rock-cut
church, Romania
http://www.flickr.com/photos/norida
/3621253855/
Masonry Iconostasis, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, Greece, 17th century byzantinemuseum.gr/en/search/?bxm=1112
Mamu monastery, Romania, 17th century www.primaria-lungesti-vl.ro/galerie.php
Old church,
Sinaia monastery,
Romania,
built in the
17th century
http://www.flickr.com
/photos/madgrin/480
2021722/
Detail, old church, Sinaia monastery, Romania, built in the 17th century amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?hotel=descopera-sinaia-si...
Detail, old church, Sinaia monastery, Romania, built in the 17th century http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterphilip/3922956314/
Detail, old church, Sinaia monastery, Romania, built in the 17th century http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterphilip/3922956314/
Detail, old church, Sinaia monastery, Romania, built in the 17th century http://www.flickr.com/photos/augustin_birau/5151828454/
 Hurezi
monastery,
the main
church,
Romania ,
17th century
amfostacolo.r
o/romania-
pareri,15/hore
zu,95,3522/ho
rezu-si-impr...

Polovragi monastery, Romania, built

in the 17th century
Feasts frieze,
Hurezi monastery,
the main church,
Romania, 1694
Feasts frieze,
Hurezi monastery,
the main church,
Romania, 1694
Agios Nikolaos Karivi church, Kastoria, Greece, photo Alisa Seleznova
Agios Nikolaos Karivi church, Kastoria, Greece http://www.flickr.com/photos/seferiades/5054463473/
St Luke church, Kotor, Montenegro, 17th century iconostasis, Dimitrij Rafailovic zographer http://www.flickr.com/photos/elisabetta2005/1164254244/
St Luke church,
Kotor,
Montenegro,
17th century
iconostasis,
Dimitrij
Rafailovic
zographer
http://www.flickr.
com/photos/363
38186@N05/34
95275612/in/set-
7215761850299
6289/
St Luke church, Kotor, Montenegro, 17th century iconostasis, Dimitrij Rafailovic zographer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36338186@N05/3495275612/in/set-72157618502996289/
St Luke church, Kotor, Montenegro, 18th century veneto-cretan style iconostasis in the chapel http://www.flickr.com/photos/cameronroberts/4202304582/
St Luke church,
Kotor,
Montenegro,
18th century
veneto-cretan
style
iconostasis in
the chapel
http://www.flick
r.com/photos/p
egash/2405094
989
Detail, St Luke church, Kotor, Montenegro, 18th century veneto-cretan style iconostasis in the chapel
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36338186@N05/3495277588/in/photostream/
Detail, St Luke church, Kotor, Montenegro, 18th century veneto-cretan style iconostasis in the chapel
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elisabetta2005/1164252398/in/photostream/