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Seeing Iconographically

Father Maximos Constas' read on the Transfiguration and the Sinai Pantokrator

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Rod Dreher
Nov 02, 2022
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I know you’re not used to hearing me so soon after a newsletter, but I had to write to share with you some interesting information I learned from a book one of you recommended, The Art of Seeing: Paradox and Perception in Orthodox Iconography, by Father Maximos Constas.

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