Icons of the Holy Monastery of Karakallou
Mount Athos
For the first time in its history Karakallou Monastery of Mount Athos is revealing its iconographic treasures to the general public. Karakallou Monastery, one of the oldest monasteries on Holy Mountain, is celebrating its millennium of uninterrupted coenobitic life with the publication of a richly illustrated volume devoted to its portable holy icons; thereby bringing to light a virtually unknown part of late Byzantine culture and Athonite spiritual heritage.
From among the hundreds of portable icons in the monastery’s possession 152 were carefully selected for this edition and were reproduced at a stunning quality. Historically, they span from the late 14th to the early 19th century and include masterpieces that are inaccessible to most of the monastery’s pilgrims. Quite significantly, the Karakallou monastery’s holdings feature the largest collection of works by Dionyssios of Fourna, a prominent Greek iconographer of the 18th century.
The book’s rich visual content combined with an extensive and well documented analysis of the artistic and historical background of each icon provides a unique insight into post-Byzantine Athonian iconography and imparts a superb experience to admirers of this sacred art.
You may find more information on this edition, view sample pages at: www.en.iconskarakallou.gr.
