Recommend a site for Byzantine icons?

[William777]

Hello Everyone,

I was wondering if someone could recommend a good site for Byzantine icons?

Something pretty.

 

[GaryTaylor]

EWTN comes to mind immediate. ewtnreligiouscatalogueDOTcom.

Hope it helps.

 

[ConstantineTG]

EWTN is not a good source, with all due respect to them. If you want statues, then yes. But icons, here are better sources:

skete.com/

This one I personally bought icons from them and they are great: holytrinitystore.com/

 

[Rolltide]

This forum’s own Pani Rose runs Agape Icons, which has some beautiful items. She’s the wife of a deacon in an Eastern Catholic church in the US South.

storesonline.com/site/1286684/page/52666

 

[William777]

My apologies. I should have been more clear.

I meant pictures, not statues. And - of the pictures - I meant preferably online free public domain stuff.

I am working on a website for a Byzantine mass mission church, and I was hoping to find some nice digital copies to use. Google hasn’t helped much.

With all the beautiful Byzantine art in existence, I figured there must be something someone could recommend.

 

[ConstantineTG]

I don’t think icons are copyrighted. It is contrary to the spirit of writing an icon to copyright it. But who knows, maybe there’s some “iconographer” out there who would indeed copyright their icon. In this case, search for images of icons that were made at least 200 years ago or more. For sure those wouldn’t have copyright on them.

 

[5Loaves]

My apologies. I should have been more clear.

I meant pictures, not statues. And - of the pictures - I meant preferably online free public domain stuff.

I am working on a website for a Byzantine mass mission church, and I was hoping to find some **nice digital copies **to use. Google hasn’t helped much.

With all the beautiful Byzantine art in existence, I figured there must be something someone could recommend.

I’m still not sure this will suit your needs, but if you only want images off the Internet then you can go to the Feast day for a saint on a site like the OCA or the goarch. Right click on the icon → “view image” right click again → “save image”. Alternatively just googling the name of the saint or Feast day will bring up sites, including wikipedia and OrthodoxWiki with icons included in the text.

Maybe someone else here is familiar with a product Jack Figel/Eastern Christian Publications offers Icon of the Week.

You will receive an email of the icon and commentary every Saturday for the following Sunday. You can read and reflect on the content on your computer screen, or **print the letter-size image on your printer, color or black & white.
**
The service for any of the calendar options is only 25 cents per week (a simple quarter), or $1.00 per month, $12.00 for the year. You will receive 52 weeks of icons and commentary for your annual subscription.

Click on the sample links to see examples of each calendar. Click on the subscribe link and sign up for your year’s worth of icons and emails.

The fact these include commentary might be helpful to your mission parish.

 

[Stephentlig]

Try buying them second hand online. Don’t buy them fresh and DON’T by them fresh/new from American or western Europe. They’ll rob ya blind to be honest.

 

[The_Idiot]

Try buying them second hand online. Don’t buy them fresh and DON’T by them fresh/new from American or western Europe. They’ll rob ya blind to be honest.

Do you realise just how long it takes for an experienced Icon writer / painter to actually make an Icon ?

These are actually prayed over the whole time the Iconographer is working on them.

It’s very easy , I would think , to do them as a type of production line process - but that’s not the way a good Iconographer works. No two icons of the same subject will actually be identical.

Yes it’s well know that getting them from Eastern Europe will be cheaper .

 

[Stephentlig]

Do you realise just how long it takes for an experienced Icon writer / painter to actually make an Icon ?

These are actually prayed over the whole time the Iconographer is working on them.

It’s very easy , I would think , to do them as a type of production line process - but that’s not the way a good Iconographer works. No two icons of the same subject will actually be identical.

Yes it’s well know that getting them from Eastern Europe will be cheaper .

No I’ve no idea how long. But my icon of St.Paul was written by an Iconographer who spent time on it and sells it to me for very very cheap and still manages to get by. I think some in the west ( in particular America ) tend to prey on the fact that their buyers have money to burn. I’ve seen the same style of icons I got going for much much more money than over here and costing much more than they should with America being the main country that seems to rob people blind when it comes to the selling of Church sacramentals.

It’s different I guess for those who have the money to spend. I don’t, so I look for a bargain and buy it from someone on the cheap or I buy it second hand on the internet.