Images of Athos Tapa dura - 2007

n.p.. Used - Like New. Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. English and Greek. (christianity, christian denominations, eastern orthodox, mount athos) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Mount Athos [960-7735-04-8] 1997. (4to) 399pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Red cloth with small paste-down photograph to the front cover. Color photographs. Some small white spots on the back cover, the dust jacket is lightly edgeworn with horizontal wrinkles in the laminate, and a small scuff to the rear panel. "The Garden of the Virgin, with its unspoilt natural environment and the unceasing spiritual struggle of its monks-anchorites, has through the ages inspired writers and artists, laymen and clerics. They expressed themselves in words and music, with the brush and the chisel. They immortalised images, persons, sounds and landscapes, not of course to please the eye and ear, but above all to inspire the soul to kneel before the throne of its Creator". Photography by Chariton of Lavra. Text in Greek and English. Locale: Athos; Garden of the Virgin; Greece; Monastery of Vatopaedi; Mount Athos. (Religion, Christianity, Monasteries, Monks, Orthodox Church,… Leer más

Holy Transfiguration, May 2007. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. Mount Athos is called ''the Garden of the Virgin,'' and the stunning beauty and artistry of this book helps us a little to understand why. Published by the great Monastery of Vatopaidi on Athos, it is divided into two parts. The first is a photographic survey of the major monasteries of the monastic republic, revealing the incredible natural and architectural beauty of the place, and glimpses of the monks about their daily tasks -- worshiping, fishing, cooking, gardening, working in the libraries and workshops of the monasteries. Included in this section are brief but informative articles on the history of Athos and the shape of its daily life by Kriton Chryssochoidis and Georgios Mantzarides. The second half of the book shows us a beauty beyond this world, and reveals the monk Chariton as an iconographer who uses a camera as his brush; it consists solely of images of many of the ''Citizens of Solitude,''… Leer más