Icon of St. Mark - Symbolism

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• Theophilus 1

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  I am sure there is an icon pundit among us who is just dying to answer my question but struggling to restrain himself out of humility. Well this message is for you, yes you, the humble icon pundit - pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease answer my questions  

  :((

  
  

  In Christ 

  Theophilus 
• mabsoota

  March 2014

  i am not humble, just without knowledge...

  ;-)

  
  

  (good to 'see' you anyway, brother)
• Theophilus 1

  March 2014 edited April 2014

  Nice to see you too mabsoota.

  
  

  A dear friend is working on a project and he really needs an answer to this question. So I guess I will just keep on bumping this trend till I get an answer. I hope nobody gets annoyed.  

  
  

  
  

  In Christ 

  Theophilus  
• markmarcos

  April 2014

  bump! im interested for this too!
• baempi

  April 2014

  This is from a Coptic iconographer disciple of Isaac fanous
  
  Glad to hear from you, it represent the church of the New Testament with the seven sacraments
  In contradiction with the fig tree " or the jewish nation" that Christ cursed
  Because it never bear fruit!
  You can see the fruitless tree in the epiphany icon.
  
  
• minatasgeel

  April 2014 edited April 2014

  @baempi there are many that are 'disciple of Isaac Fanous.' He was head of the entire iconography school in HICS for many years. who is the iconographer exactly?
• Theophilus 1

  April 2014

  I am glad to see an answer being posted. Baempi, you saved the day. 

  
  

  Minatasgeel, I agree with you it will be nice to find a definite source. 

  
  

  In Christ 

  Theophilus 
• Theophilus 1

  April 2014

  Many many thanks to Hezekiel for finding the following material. Its not easy to send the link so I wll just post what you should google and open the second link:

  
  

  The following text is written on this icon (transcribed): “Piapostolos – piagios – Markos”

  
  

  In Christ

  Theophilus