Re: [OM] IMG: Wales

[Chuck Norcutt]

I'm not sure I understood your question but it appears that you see the 
image of Virgin and Child in the cathedral as somehow an Eastern 
Orthodox creation.  I don't see it that way at all... what I see is a 
Virgin and Child created in the style common to pre-Renaissance art.  I 
don't know when Brecon Cathedral was finished but construction started 
in 1093 a couple of hundred years before the Renaissance.  A 
pre-Rennaisance style image should be expected.
If you search Google for images of "Virgin and Child" or "Madonna and 
Child" you'll have to scan a lot of images but you will eventually see 
images that look like the style seen in the Brecon Cathedral. If you 
check the dates of these works you'll see they either pre-date or occur 
early on in the 14th century.
Chuck Norcutt


On 9/10/2016 11:41 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 9/9/2016 3:32 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> > First installment from my trip to Cardiff and Oxford last week. A few
> > images of Cardiff, followed by a drive on the A470 to Brecon,
> > traversing some beautiful Welsh countryside with green hills and a lot
> > of sheep:
> >
> > http://www.frozenlight.eu/brecon2016/index.html
> I was really surprised to see the Orthodox icon as the image of Virgin
> and Child in a shrine in the cathedral. I have no CofE, Catholic or
> Orthodox background and darn little knowledge, but I've been in a lot of
> churches, including my first Russian Orthodox (at least in ages?)
> recently. I've never seen such a crossover of style.
>
> Ionic* Moose
>
> * Carrying a charge.
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