Statues in the Eastern Tradition

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I have never seen a full round statue in any Orthodox church.

I have seen a few in Canadian Eastern Catholic churches, but few and I am sure those came from Latinising influences.
 
andrewstx said:
I have never seen a full round statue in any Orthodox church.

I have seen a few in Canadian Eastern Catholic churches, but few and I am sure those came from Latinising influences.
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According to a friend who visited Serbia, a Serbian Orthodox cathedral he toured had full fledge statues. I’ve heard of other cases as well - even if it is rare. I’ve also heard that the Byzantine Rite did have statues prior to the 12th century…but I know nothing of that…
 
The closest thing I can think of in the Coptic tradition is ivory reliefs, which I think are really amazing but as far as I can tell aren’t really common anymore. From what I’ve read, they were often used so that blind people would be able to engage iconic art (the Alexandrians were something of pioneers in their treatment of blind believers; a reading system for the blind was devised at the School of Alexandria well over a thousand years before the invention of Braille, and the tradition of the blind cantor actually still continues in the church today; Moallem Gad Lewis, my personal favorite modern Coptic cantor is blind, as was the greatest of all, Mikhail Batanouny).

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Coptic depiction of Christ in ivory, 6th century

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Ivory scene depicting the raising of Lazarus
 
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