Liturgical Arts Journal

Within the collections of the Terra Sancta Museum are many stunning monstrances and to honour this time of the year I thought we would look at just three examples coming from their collections. The first monstrance we will look at today was crafted in Paris during the nineteenth century.  This particular piece has some interesting pedigree to it insofar as it once...

Markos Kampanis is a painter and muralist based in Athens, Greece. As one might expect, his work is heavily influenced by the Byzantine iconographic tradition, but the scope and potential of his work also extends well beyond that, seeking to "bridge tradition and modernity, tracing the fragile dialogue between history and the present."  Of course, many of our readers a...

When one thinks of Coptic art, one tends to think of very highly stylized icons. Now of course, most icons in the iconographic tradition are highly stylized, including Byzantine and Russian icons for example, but the Coptic tradition took it to a whole other level, with icons of an almost 'cartoonish' style (which is meant with no disrespect please note, it is simply the best wa...

One of the most popularly misunderstood symbols in some parts of the world is that comprised of a triangle with an eye placed within it. Now symbols are the sort of thing that can have various meanings assigned (or re-assigned) to them of course, but within a Western Christian liturgical context, this symbol of an eye surrounded by a triangle is actually a Trinitarian symbol, so...

Before we leave the great feast and Octave of Pentecost for yet another year, I wanted to share the following vestment that recently came out of the atelier of Sacra Domus Aurea, an atelier based out of Italy that specializes in vestments of various cuts and styles, all of which are defined by an adherence to the traditional lexicon of vestment design. In this particular in...