T Casey
@up_kinch
Bored lawyer and Byzantinist. I occasionally write strange tales.
A lot of people make that mistake, but it was originally "this little piggy went to Marquette," because he was studying with the Jesuits.
When I was a little kid, I used to think "this little pig went to market," meant it was going shopping!
I enjoy drinking tea and I'm glad to hear there's some new app just for discussing tea with other tea enthusiasts.
Unlike Hilary, I am not an artist (nor a musician), but I came to the same basic conclusions about the harmonious cosmological order found in pre-Renaissance sacred arts. That this order remains alive and well in Orthodoxy is one of the strongest arguments in its favor.
The canons in sacred painting is part of the larger Christian cosmological worldview in which all sacred art forms, chant, architecture, liturgy, were interconnected through a shared grammar of number and proportion. Just as Gregorian chant was not composed to stir emotion...
my parents took me to the doctor when i was little because i didn't have a shadow. doctor said it was like baby teeth. some kids take longer. when i got to elementary school, my shadow was still not fully developed. had to wear prescription hats for a couple of years.
And yet, this Hodegetria model became the standard form for depicting the Virgin for a thousand years. How did this spiritually nourish us, and how did the abandonment of the canons at the "Renaissance" contribute to the collapse of Christian devotion? Read about it below 👇
You can easily see how these proportional "canons" were pioneered by the Byzantines in their iconography. This is the "Hodegetria" icon prototype, brought over to Italy that became the Madonna and Child type. This was obviously never meant to be a "portrait".
Anon, have you ever considered the original social media?* * listening to a couple of dudes in Shelby County talk about knee replacement surgery
Something i will forever love about Star Trek is the use of color within the set and shots.. its honestly one of the many reasons i even watch the series as a whole 🥹
This is a helpful clarification of what is popularly meant by “papal minimalism.” How it differs from maximalism remains unclear.
Papal Minimalism doesn't mean that the Pope's juridical authority is minimal. This is a misnomer and one of the problems with the term. The idea of Papal Minimalism (that I agree with and that is the teaching of Vatican 1) is that the Pope has a moral (not a juridical) duty to…
Perhaps Rod should rebrand himself as a Gen-X Jimmy Buffett character, complete with a series of Magyarville resorts where "owlheads" can withdraw from society to complain about cultural decline while playing pickleball.
Made a new friend in Transylvania. Owls are the best birds!
NOLA is home to the oldest Orthodox church in the lower 48, founded in 1866. Interestingly, liturgy was celebrated in Greek, Slavonic, and Arabic, reflecting the pan-Orthodox intentions of its founders.
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Burning Bush mural from a section of the inner narthex of an Antiochian parish I am currently working on. This section was completed back in April.
After a decade of absence and toil, Orthodoxy has returned to Tuscaloosa! Sixty strong for liturgy today. Come and see!