Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Western Iconography


Much is written about iconography, but very little about the differences between the two schools of the East and the West.  I have always found it distressing that so often one sees in Latin Rite churches Easterern Icons rather than Western ones as if there where no differences.  I suspect that there are some people who do not know the difference.

I do not propose to write here about it at length but only to raise the matter - it is not proper to Latinise the Eastern rites and it is equally improper to Easternise the Latin Rites.  Surely it erodes their integrity?

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