Paintings
made of
the stuff of earth, offering
ourselves and our beautiful world up to Heaven.
Icons
offering windows into Heaven through which Earth-bound
eyes may glimpse our eternal destiny
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Vladimir Theotokos
Traditional icon after
the original by Simon Ushakov (1668) in the State Tretyakov Gallery,
the Kremlin Armoury, Moscow. The original was
ordered for the Monastery of the Presentation in Moscow.