Theology, History and Meaning of Icons

Theology

• 📚 Theology of the Icon (Vols. I & II), Leonid Ouspensky, St. Vladamir's Seminary Press

• 📚 On the Holy Icons, St. Theodore the Studite

• 📚 Three Treatises on the Divine Images , St. John of Damascus

Meaning

• 📚 The Meaning of Icons, Leonid Ouspensky, Vladimir Lossky, St. Vladamir's Seminary Press

• 📚 Orthodox Christianity: The Architecture, Icons, and Music of the Orthodox Church, Hilarion Alfeyev, St. Vladmir's Seminary Press, 2014

• 📚 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium, Linda Safran (Editor), Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998

• 📚 Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Alfredo Tradigo

• 📚 Festival Icons for the Church's Year, John Baggley, St. Vladmir's Seminary Press, 2000

• 📚Iconostasis, Pavel Florensky, St. Vladamir's Seminary Press

• 📚 Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons, Jaroslav Pelikan

• 📚 The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty, Paul Evdokimov

• 📚 Praying with Icons, Jim Forest

• 📚 The Resurrection and the Icon, Michel Quenot

• 📚 Icon as Communion, George Kordis

• 📚 Being: The art and life of Father Sophrony, Sister Gabiela

• 📚 The Rublev Trinity: The Icon of the Trinity by the Monk-Painter Andrei Rublev, Andrew Louth, St. Vladamir's Seminary Press

• 📚 Icons in the Modern World: Beauty, Spirit, Matter, Aidan Hart

• 📚 Visible Image of the Invisible God: A Guide to Russian and Byzantine Icons, Dennis Sorella

• 📚 Christian Iconography: The History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages, Alphonse Napoleon Didron

• 📚 The Icon Handbook: A Guide to Understanding Icons and the Liturgy, Symbols and Practices of the Russian Orthodox Church, Coomler, Templegate Publishers, 1995

• 📚 Icons and Stains of the Easterrn Orthodox Church, Tradigo, The Getty Museum, 2004

• 📚 Festival Icons of the Christian Year, John Baggley, SVS Press, 2000

• 📚 Festal Icons: History and Meaning, Adian Hart, Gracewing, 2022

• 📚 Guide to Byzantine Iconography (Vol. 1), Constantine Cavarnos 

• 📚 Guide to Byzantine Iconography (Vol. 2), Constantine Cavarnos 

• 📚 Icons & Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Alfredo Tradigo and Stephen Sartarelli, 2006

• 📚 Images in Tie, Persons in Eternity: Orthodox Theology and th Aesthetics of the Christian Image. C.A. Tsariridou, Ashgate, 2013

Byzantine Art

• 📚The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era A.D. 843-1261, Edited by Evans and Wixom, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Abrams, 

• 📚Orthodox Iconography, Constantine Cavarnos, Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

• 📚Byzantine Sacred Art, Constantine Cavarnos, Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 1957

• 📚The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era A.D. 843-1261, Edited by Evans and Wixom, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Abrams, 

• 📚The World Of Byzantium, Kenneth W. Harl, The Great Courses

• 📚Byzantine Icons - with an introduction and notes by David Talbot Rice, Faber and Faber

• 📚Byzantine Aesthetics, Gervase Mathew, John Murry - London

• 📚The Art of the Byzantine Era, David Talbot Rice, Praeger - New York

• 📚The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453: Sources and Documents, Mango, Cyril

• 📚Guide to Byzantine Art, Evan Freedman & Anne L. McClanan

• 🔗 Hagia Sophia - Learn About Byzantium, https://www.pallasweb.com/deesis, Bob Atchison

• 📚The Living Icon in Byzantinum and Italy: The Vita Image, Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries Paroma Chatterjee, Cambridge Univerity Press, 1978

• 📚 The Oxhord Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture, Schwartz, Oxford, 2021

Byzantine Art

• 📚 Early Christian & Byzantine Art, John Lowden

• 📚 The Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium; Bissera V. Pentcheva

• 📚 The Art of the Byzantine Empire: 312 - 1453, Sources and Documents, Cyril Mango, New York

• 📚 Византийская Живопись [Byzantine Painting], Viktor Nikitich Lazarev, Moscow, 1971

• 📚 The Icons of Their Bodies Paperback, Henry Maguire, 2000

• 📚 Rhetoric, Nature and Magic in Byzantine Art, Henry Maguire

• 📚 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium, Safran, The Pennsylvania State University, 1998

• 📚 Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557), Evans, Helen, ed., New York, 2004

• 📚 Art and Eloquence in Byzantium, Maguire, Henry, Princeton, 1981

• 📚 Byzantine Architecture, Mango, Cyril,  New York, 1978

• 📚 The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art, Mathews, Thomas,  Princeton, 1993, repr. 1995

• 📚 Master Builders of Byzantium, Ousterhout, Robert,  Philadelphia, 2008

• 📚 The Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium, Pentcheva, Bissera, University Park, PA, 2010

• 📚 Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium, Pentcheva, Bissera, University Park, PA, 2017

Architecture

• 📚 Experience, Interpretation, Comparison: Monumental Occasions: Reflections on the Eventfulness of Religious Architecture Volume I.1: The Experience of Architecture, Lindsay Jones, 2016

• 📚 Experience, Interpretation, Comparison: Monumental Occasions: Reflections on the Eventfulness of Religious ArchitectureVolume I.2: The Mechanism of Architecture, Lindsay Jones, 2016

• 📚 Experience, Interpretation, Comparison: Monumental Occasions: Reflections on the Eventfulness of Religious Architecture Volume I.3: The Interpretation of Architecture, Lindsay Jones, 2016

• 📚 Experience, Interpretation, Comparison: Monumental Occasions: Reflections on the Eventfulness of Religious Architecture Volume I.4: The Comparison of Architecture, Lindsay Jones, 2016

• 📚 Experience, Interpretation, Comparison: Monumental Occasions: Reflections on the Eventfulness of Religious Architecture Volume II.1: Architecture as Orientation, Lindsay Jones, 2016

• 📚 Experience, Interpretation, Comparison: Monumental Occasions: Reflections on the Eventfulness of Religious Architecture Volume II.1: Architecture as Commemoration, Lindsay Jones, 2016

• 📚 Experience, Interpretation, Comparison: Monumental Occasions: Reflections on the Eventfulness of Religious Architecture Volume II.1: Architecture as Ritual Context, Lindsay Jones, 2016

History

• 📚 A History of Icon Painting, Evseyeva, et al; 2005

• 📚 Christian Iconography: The History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages, Alphonse Napoleon Didron

• 📚Art and Religion in Medieval Armenia, The Met, [Edited by] Helen C. Evans

• 📚Africa and Byzantium, The Met, [Edited by] Andrea Myers Achi

• 📚 Christian Iconography: A Study of Its Origins, Andre Grabar

• 📚 Likeness and Presence: A History of Images Before the Era of Art, Hans Belting

Additional Theology / History

To Be Categorized

• 📚 Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church,  Alfredo Tradigo & Stephen Sartarelli

• 📚 Sacred Doorways, Linette Martin

• 📚 The Icon: Windows on the Kingdom, Michel Quenot

• 📚 The Resurrection and the Icon, Michel Quenot

• 📚 The Mystical Language of Icons, Sorunn Nes

• 📚 God’s Human Face: The Christ Icon, Christoph Schonborn

• 📚 Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons, Jaroslav Pelikan

• 📚 The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty, Paul Evdokimov

• 📚 Behold the Beauty of the Lord: Praying with Icons, Henri Nouwen, 2007

• 📚 Windows to Heaven: Introducing Icons to Protestants and Catholics; Elizabeth Zelensky, Lela Gilbert

• 📚 The Mystical Language of Icons, Solrunn Nes [translated by Arlyne Moi], Eerdmans, 2007

• 📚 Icons in the Western Church: Toward a More Sacramental Encounter,  Jeana Visel

• 📚 The Uncreated Light: An Iconographical Study of the Transfiguration in the Eastern Church, Nes

• 📚 The Gates of Mystery: The Art of Holy Russia, Grierson, InterCultura

• 📚 The Icon Handbook:  A guide to Understanding Icons and the Liturgy Symbols and Practices of the Russian Orthodox Church, David Coomier, 1995

• 📚 The Church Culture of Saint Petersburg, Mukhin, Ivan Fyodorov Publishers, 1994

• 📚 The Open Door: Entering the Sanctuary of Icons and Prayer, Frederica Mathewes-Green, 2008

• 📚 Icons in the Western Church:  Toward a More Sacramental Encounter, Jeana Visel OSB, 2016

• 📚 The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty, Paul Evdokimov and Stephen Bigham, 1989