The Function of the Icon

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Interview with Frithjof Schuon - on Art

Light on the Ancient Worlds: A Brief Survey of the Book by Frithjof Schuon

Ernest Thompson Seton explains "The Gospel of the Redman"

What are the "Foundations of Christian Art?"

The Sacred Worlds Series

The Universal Spirit of Islam: Keys for Interfaith Understanding

Books about Buddhism

The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity

The Sermon of All Creation: Christians on Nature

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What are the "Foundations of Christian Art?"

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How does the icon function?

"The doctrinal foundation of the icon determines not only its general orientation, its subject and its iconography, but also its formal language, its style. This style is the direct result of the function of the symbol: the picture must not seek to replace the object depicted, which surpasses it eminently; according to the words of Dionysius the Areopagite it must 'respect the distance that separates the intelligible from the sensible.'"

Madonna and Child on a Curved Throne, Greece, 13th century