Transfiguration

This beautifully illustrated volume of thirty-two icons is truly as the subtitle claims: "an introduction to contemplation."

Learning to contemplate is a challenge, because we often want the results sooner than we can have them. In the first twenty commentaries, Maria Muzj helps us acquire an "eye" and a "feel" for icons, by taking some of them from a more spiritual aspect, and some from a more artistic point of view. Then, beginning with the Conception of St. Anne, she harmoniously blends both the artistic and the spiritual, presenting for our consideration the profound concepts that the iconographers meditated on, and the artistic techniques they used to portray them.