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The Akathistos Hymn: Anthivola for its Illustration

The Akathistos Hymn: Anthivola for its Illustration

The Akathistos Hymn: Anthivola for its Illustration

The Akathistos Hymn: Anthivola for its Illustration

by Anthi Valsamaki

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Bilingual (greek-english) edition. Hard cover, 25X35 cm, 74 pp., ill. After a detailed investigation of many years, delving into the sacramental and revelatory world of the art of hagiographers of the past, icon painter, Anthi Valsamaki attempted to render the richness of the Akathistos Hymn in a contemporary manner. Following the rich tradition of icon illustration, and keeping firmly in sight the precise theological interpretation of each of the 24 verses of this particular hymn, which is so significant for Orthodox Christianity, she illustrated each verse using India ink and cross-hatching. Anthi Valsamaki, a graduate of the Set Design Department of the Vakalo Schools and the Athens School of Fine Arts (the icon painting workshop of K. Xynopoulos), is in charge of the Benaki Museum icon painting workshop. To date, she has had eight solo shows; she has been responsible for the icon decoration of many churches in Greece and abroad; and her works are in many private collections. She is one of the few women icon painters permitted to paint the icons on church walls, having received a special dispensation to this end from the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople. She is the author of a series of books discussing the technique and the symbolic nature of images in Orthodox iconography. Forewords to the volume were written by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, and the director of the Museum Angelos Delivorrias. The work includes extensive references to the history of the hymn, how it was created, its form and content, as well as the iconography corresponding to each verse, as that was formulated in the final years of the 13th century. // AKATHISTOS HYMNOS - Modelos de su representación en iconos. Descripción: Después de una atenta investigación de largos años y de laindagación en el misterioso y a la vez revelador mundo del arte de los pintores de santos del pasado, la pintora de iconos Anthi Valsamaki ha intentado representar de modo contemporáneo la riqueza del Akathistos Hymnos. Siguiendo la riquísima tradición y teniendo siempre por objetivo su correcta interpretación teológica, pintó con tinta china y sombreado cada uno de los 24 oikoi (estrofas) de este peculiar Himno de la Ortodoxia. Anthi Valsamaki, licenciada en el Departamento de Escenografía de la Escuela Vakaló y de la Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes (taller de pintura de santos K. Xynópoulos), es responsable del taller de pintura de santos del Museo Benaki. Ha realizado hasta ahora ocho exposiciones en solitario, ha pintado los iconos en numerosos templos de Grecia y el extranjero, y constan obras suyas en numerosas colecciones privadas, siendo una de las pocas mujeres pintoras de santos que tienen la facultad de pintar el interior de iglesias, por medio de la bendición especial del Patriarca Ecuménico de Constantinopla. Es la autora de una serie de libros en los que presenta la técnica, así como el carácter simbólico, de las representaciones de los iconos ortodoxos. El volumen está prologado por el Patriarca Ecuménico de Constantinopla, Bartolomeo, y el Director del Museo, Profesor D. Angelos Delivorrias. La obra incluye una amplia referencia al historial de la creación, a la forma y el contenido del Himno, así como a la iconografía de cada estrofa, tal y como fue conformada en los últimos años del siglo XIII. La nota de introducción fue redactada por el bizantinólogo Dr. Stavros I. Arvanitópoulos.

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The Akathistos Hymn: Anthivola for its Illustration
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Anthi Valsamaki
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2005
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