Theology of beauty: on reading icons

They will get to know about the language of icons in Kraków. Workshops on reading icons will be organized in the rooms of the St. Mary’s Basilica. The first of the lectures will take place on 5 February around 7.30PM.

The aim of the meetings is to present the people of the Western Church, as well as all the interested, with the meaning hidden in icons. These days, icons and iconography became very popular, even fashionable. It is not always about contemplation, longer stay in front of a holy image or understanding of an icon. In order for this to happen, it is necessary to get to know the language of icons. Thanks to this, an icon will not be seen only as artistic work, it may originate a real meeting with God, indeed.

The workshops will be led by Nadia Miazhevich and PhD priest Jan Strumiłowski. N. Miazhevich deals with writing icons, she comes from Belarus. She graduated from the faculty of painting in Minsk, she is interested in Byzantine art. She is an author and co-editor of a blog dedicated to the art of writing icons and the theology of icons: blogokno.com. Priest Strumiłowski is a co-editor of the medium – he is a cistercian monk, dogmatist, professor at the Theological Seminar in Katowice-Panewniki. He is a parish priest in Jędrzejów. He deals with theology of beauty, trynity theology, Christology and theology of cognition, particularly from existential and esthetic aspects, also deals with its relations to the contemporary philosophy and empirical sciences. He is an author of numerous publications, among others books Piękno zbawi świat or Zrodzony z wiary.