Description
Christ Pantocrator Religious Icon
Size is about 8.5 by 7 inches.
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Russian Religious Icon of Christ Pantocrator
A religious icon (from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn) ‘image, resemblance‘) is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Catholic churches. The most common subjects include Jesus, Mary, saints, and angels. Although especially associated with portrait-style images concentrating on one or two main figures, the term also covers most of the religious images in a variety of artistic media produced by Eastern Christianity, including narrative scenes, usually from the Bible or the lives of saints.
Icons are most commonly painted on wood panels with egg tempera, but they may also be cast in metal or carved in stone or embroidered on cloth or done in mosaic or fresco work or printed on paper or metal, etc. Comparable images from Western Christianity may be classified as “icons”, although “iconic” may also be used to describe the static style of a devotional image. In the Greek language, the term for icon painting uses the same word as for “writing”, and Orthodox sources often translate it into English as icon writing.
The most common translation of Pantocrator is “Almighty” or “All-powerful”. Another, more literal translation is “Ruler of All” or, less literally, “Sustainer of the World”.
The Pantokrator is largely an Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholic theological conception and is less common under that name in Latin Catholicism. In the West, the equivalent image in art is known as Christ in Majesty, which developed a rather different iconography. Christ Pantocrator has come to suggest Christ as a benevolent, though also stern and all-powerful, judge of humanity.
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