![]() ![]() ![]() Similar questions loom over the legacy of Pamela Anderson, an indelible piece of ’90s iconography who, in a surprisingly avant-garde new book and an emotional Netflix documentary, adds new dimension to a life story that has often been reductively eroticized. Art historians have debated Diana’s agency, her reaction to the attention, and whether her blushing cheeks signify coquettishness or fury. The painting conjures a host of modern questions about objectification. Midway through our conversation, Pamela Anderson name-checks the Renaissance master Titian and his “Diana and Actaeon.” The painting, one in a series of the artist’s interpretations of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” shows Actaeon, a male hunter, stumbling upon the virgin goddess Diana, who is bathing and naked except for a sick-as-hell bejeweled updo. In the context of this discussion, therefore, it means that a portrait-like likeness is not necessary in order for it to be a holy image.Pamela Anderson wears Necklace (worn as bracelet) Celine. So it would include, for example, the physical attribute of shaggy hair and beard of the prophet Isaias but also the tongs and hot coal that touched his mouth before he prophesied for the first time. When we talk about ‘characteristics’ in this context, we are referring not so much to a photographic likeness, but rather to those key elements (which might include physical attributes) that characterize the person and contribute to his or her uniqueness as a person. I have written in more detail about this here. (Theodore is the great Father of the East whose writing, perhaps even more than that of John of Damascus, closed the iconoclastic period in the 9 th century.) The first requirement is that the image bears the name of the person depicted and the second is that it captures his or her ‘characteristics’. The two requirements for a holy image were set out by Theodore the Studite. The first step, I feel is to establish just what the principles that we need to work with are. As a portrait it is wonderful, but it is not right for an icon or the gothic style (which is what I hope to do). The familiar painting by Hans Holbein the Younger is the definitive face of Thomas More. This issue here is not that his photographic image is well known, but that his naturalistic portrait is. In the next few months, I will begin an image of St Thomas More himself. I have a similar problem to grapple with as I continue to paint large scale works for the chapel at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. The result in the examples that I saw was a clash of styles - naturalism and iconography- rather than a blend. I have seen some icons of figures whose faces are well known through photography, such as St Therese of Lisieux and Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in which a naturalistic photographic-like portrait stares out from a painting in which everything is else iconographic. A Papal Nuncio on Bishops Resisting Summorum Ponti.Contemplating Candlemas with Sacred Art.Candlemas: Some Theological and Historico-Liturgic.More from Archbishop Léonard’s Pontifical Mass.Notre Dame de la Bonne Delivrance, Paris.A Greek Troparion in the Latin liturgy for Candlemas.Cardinal Burke to Take Possession of Titular Churc.Pontifical Mass of Cardinal Brandmüller.Book Notice: Liturgical Reflections of a Papal Mas.Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of the Assumption.Motu Proprio on a New Liturgical Movement?.Further Photos of the Mass of Cardinal Brandmüller.A System of Heraldry for the Anglican Ordinariates.Dom Cassian Folsom, OSB, Offers Solemn Mass at Cat.Solemn Pontifical Mass, Holy Apostles Seminary, Cr.Martin Mosebach at the Church of Our Saviour, NYC.Report on "In Utroque Usu: The Pursuit of the Two.Book Release: Agostino Marchetto, The Second Vatic.The Modern Liturgical Reform – An Alternative Hist.Cardinals Amato and Ranjith Taking Possession of T.Vatican Basilica Maestro at St John Cantius, Chicago.1,500 year-old Church with Mosaics Found in Israel.The Feast of All the Neomartyrs of Russia.Thomas More College and Gregorian Chant.Saint Agnes, NYC, Explores Latin Music of Anglican.More Photos from Cardinal Ranjith's Mass in His Ti.Urgent: International Appeal for the Preservation.Concerns Over Possible Instruction on Summorum Pon.Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in Architecture.A Good Editorial About Comments and Comboxes.Te Deum Institute of Sacred Liturgy: Sacred Time.Decorations of the Vatican Basilica on the Feast o.Dino Marcantonio - Parts of the Church Building: T. ![]() Reprinted: Geoffrey Webb, The Liturgical Altar.St Paul and St Bonaventure by Manuel Farrugia.Cover of the New English Edition of the Roman Missal.The Divine Liturgy by Hieromonk Gregorios. ![]()
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