Volume 1, 2015

Editor’s Greeting

Raoul Smith

As the only museum in the United States dedicated to the collection and exhibition of icons, the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, Massachusetts, established the Center for Icon Studies in 2012 to support research in iconology and iconography. We are pleased to introduce the first volume of the online Journal of Icon Studies.

Saint Nicholas with Angels and Miracles, Novgorod, 16th century. Private collection, London. 54 x 42 cm

Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker with Angels and Miracles: A New Image of Saint Nicholas of Myra in Russian Art of the 16th Century

Engelina S. Smirnova

Nativity of the Mother of God, Museum of Russian Icons collection, Accession, 2011.39a

Visuality Among Cubism, Iconography, and Theosophy: Pavel Florensky’s Theory of Iconic Space

Clemena Antonova

Resurrection and Descent into Hell, Museum of Russian Icons collection, 2011.90

A Teratological Source of Hellhead

Henry A. Hundt and Raoul N. Smith

Paternitas, c. 1590, Museum of Russian Icons collection, R2009.18

Images of the Invisible: Icons and Iconoclasm in Jean-Luc Marion

Stephanie Rumpza

Ladder of Divine, Ascent, Lankton Codex, f15v

John Climacus’ Ladder, Russian Spirituality and Monastic Revival(s): Contextualizing the Lankton codex

Diana Dukhanova

“Damned Trinity,” Model 3: Judas sits in the Devil’s lap, the Devil sits in a Hell-Giant’s lap. Detail of the Descent into Hell icon, Vladimir-Suzdal, 16th century

From Biblical Personage to Demon: Judas in Old Russian Iconography

Dmitry Antonov