WOODEN ICONS FROM
JOHN LATERAN BASILICA, ROME
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CHRIST PANTOKRATOR |
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MYR180 // SGD60
15cm x 23.5cm // 6 inch x 9.25 inch (LAST PIECE AVAILABLE) |
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"Pantokrator" is the Greek translation of the Hebrew title El Shaddai, meaning "all powerful” or "Ruler of all". This icon is also called Christ the Teacher as Jesus is holding a book. The hand gesture is exaggerated because Jesus is making the symbol of four letters with the right hand: I, C, and X. These letters spell out Christ's monogram. Specifically, "Jesus Christ" spelled in Greek which is: IHCOYC XPICTOC. The monogram is formed by taking the first and last letters of each name, which is also a symbol of Jesus being Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last.
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MOTHER OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR |
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MYR180 // SGD60
15cm x 23.5cm // 6 inch x 9.25 inch SOLD OUT |
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This icon depicts our Blessed Mother Mary, under the title “Mother of God,” holding the Child Jesus. In a very beautiful way, the Child Jesus holds onto the Blessed Mother. He seeks comfort from His mother, as He sees the instruments of His passion. The position of Mary’s hands– both holding the Child Jesus (who seems like a small adult) and presenting Him to us– convey the reality of our Lord’s incarnation, that He is true God who became also true man. In iconography, Mary here is represented as the Hodighitria, the one who guides us to the Redeemer. She also is our Help, who intercedes on our behalf with her Son. The star painted on Mary’s veil, centered on her forehead, highlights her role in the plan of salvation as both the Mother of God and our Mother.
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THE HOLY TRINITY |
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MYR180 // SGD60
15cm x 23.5cm // 6 inch x 9.25 inch SOLD OUT |
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This icon depicts the story where Abraham receives three visitors as he camps by the oak of Mamre. Reading the picture from left to right, we see the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We know this from the different clothing of each person of the Trinity. On the left, the Father seems to wear all the colours in a kind of fabric that changes with the light, that seems transparent, that cannot be described or confined in words. In the middle, the Son has the deepest colours; a thick heavy garment of the reddish-brown of earth and a cloak of the blue of heaven. In His person He unites heaven and earth, the two natures are present in Him, and over his right shoulder (the Government shall be upon his shoulder) there is a band of gold shot through the earthly garment, as his divinity suffuses and transfigures his earthly being. On the right, the Holy Spirit has a garment of the clear blue of the sky, wrapped over with a robe of a fragile green. So the Spirit of creation moves in sky and water, breathes in heaven and earth. All living things owe their freshness to his touch. The table represents the altar where the sacrifice of Christ takes place.
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