Rublev's Icon of the Trinity

On Friday, 14 February 2014, 22:17, Donald ... wrote:

 Dear William, 

Late evening, and simply sent some drafting from the Rublev Trinity pasture.

God bless.

Donald  

 

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Knowing the mass of the Rublev ‘Trinity’ resources or Websites, we can only dip into the digital ocean.

1. English Anglican Ann Persson is the author of The Circle of Love:  Praying with Rublev's Icon of the Trinity 
Ann Persson’s lecture at St. Paul’s retells of her experience of viewing the Rublev Icon in Russia. She learned to know a Icon maker, a Sister in Oxford. And they both made the ‘pilgrimage’ to Rublev in Moscow.  Some reflections echo Henri Nouwen

 

2. Enjoy the Hospitality of the Trinity (with Rublev’s Icon)    

 Bill Gaultiere    www.soulshepherds.org

Henri Nouwen’s Meditation on Rublev’s Icon

What a joy it is for us to be drawn into this circle of divine love portrayed in Rublev’s icon!  In the words of Henri Nouwen:

The more we look at this holy image with the eyes of faith, the more we come to realize that it is painted not as a lovely decoration for a convent church, nor as a helpful explanation of a difficult doctrine, but as a holy place to enter and stay within.

As we place ourselves in front of the icon in prayer, we come to experience a gentle invitation to participate in the intimate conversation that is taking place among the three divine angels and to join them around the table.  The movement from the Father toward the Son and the movement of both Son and Spirit toward the Father become a movement in which the one who prays is lifted up and held secure…

 

... We come to see with our inner eyes that all engagements in this world can bear fruit only when they take place within this divine circle… the house of perfect love (Behold the Beauty of the Lord: Praying with Icons, p. 20-22).

Praying to the Lord before Rublev’s icon painting can help us to join Abraham in hosting the Lord in our hearts.  As we do we discover that the Father, Son, and Spirit were already inviting us to join in their circle of love! “We love because He first loved us”  (1 John 4:19).

When we participate in “The Hospitality of Abraham” to the Lord we discover that really we are responding to “The Hospitality of the Trinity.”

 3. Finding this reference to Henri Nouwen, after lunch I checked the library shelf. There is the well copy of ‘Behold The Beauty of the Lord – Praying with Icons’, right into our lectio alley.  

 

4. 4. Natan Duffy Dogmatic Enigmatics   

 http://nateduffy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-rublev-trinity-icon.html

On the Bunge book:

Extract – last paragraph

In The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty, Paul Evdokimov reads the Rublev Trinity in an extremely bizarre manner, completely out of sync with everything I had come to understand about it and seemingly contradicting some of these these obvious facts about the icon, especially in the context of the iconographical tradition. Specifically, Evdokimov identifies the central angel as the Father, rendering his reading quite incoherent, from my perspective. Which is not to disparage that text as a whole, as it is quite profound, but Bunge's The Rublev Trinity provides a richer and more accurate reading of this particular icon, substantiated by tracing the tradition that lead up to its production.

Posted by Nathan Duffy 

4.Next we investigate into the above interpretation. and the Dogmatic Enigmatics

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On Thursday, 13 February 2014, 8:18, William  ... wrote:

Dear Father Donald,

I love that icon, and Wiki offers an interesting comment on its composition:

"The only work authenticated as entirely his [Rublev] is the icon of the Trinity, ca. 1410, currently in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. It is based on an earlier icon known as the "Hospitality of Abraham" (illustrating Genesis 18). Rublev removed the figures of Abraham and Sarah from the scene, and through a subtle use of composition and symbolism changed the subject to focus on the Mystery of the Trinity. In Rublev's art two traditions are combined: the highest asceticism and the classic harmony of Byzantine mannerism. The characters of his paintings are always peaceful and calm. After some time his art came to be perceived as the ideal of Church painting and of Orthodox iconography."

I wonder what else you will discover!

In the love of Our Lord,

William

From: Fr Donald ...
To: William.....
Sent: Thursday, 13 February 2014, 5:42
Subject: [Dom Donald's Blog] Vigils Doxology

Night Office 

Rublev icon, TRINITY

Doxology of Hymn of Thursday B Glory be to God, 
Father, Son and Dove, 
Three and One in Love, 
now and evermore. 

I had forgotten where the  Icon in the monastery. 

Yesterday there it was on one of the pillars in the cloister. opposite the Pieta alcove.   Above is the photo taken there. And there must be some commentary crying out for, e.g., the nearest YouTube:  

  http://blueeyedennis-siempre.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/solemnity-of-holy-trinity-2012.html   -- Posted By Fr Donald to Dom Donald's Blog on 2/13/2014 05:42:00 am