{"id":7807,"date":"2016-03-12T10:11:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T17:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7807"},"modified":"2016-03-12T12:38:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T19:38:51","slug":"gallery-of-saints-and-muses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7807","title":{"rendered":"Gallery of Saints and Muses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dI-9MjnRidY\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nLast October, I posted about <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7522\">my Byzantine-style icon of the Emperor Julian the Philosopher<\/a>, which now hangs in my study, and the artist who created it, Sasha Chaitow.<\/p>\n<p>She is working on new series \u2014 saints, muses, angels \u2014 and posted a short video about her creative process and <a href=\"http:\/\/iconcraft.gr\/\">the cooperative gallery she created, Icon<\/a>, on the Greek island of Corfu. (Because it is Corfu, there must always be icons of St. Spyridon, its patron saint, in the mix.) Here is the gallery&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/corfuicon\/\">page on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I writing about a painter of Christian saints? Because Sasha is an esotericist at heart, who moves from one manifestation of the sacred to another as easily as she switches from Greek to English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, I posted about my Byzantine-style icon of the Emperor Julian the Philosopher, which now hangs in my study, and the artist who created it, Sasha Chaitow. She is working on new series \u2014 saints, muses, angels \u2014 and posted a short video about her creative process and the cooperative gallery she created, Icon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,33],"class_list":["post-7807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-greece"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-21V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7522,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7522","url_meta":{"origin":7807,"position":0},"title":"An Icon from an Alternate Universe","author":"Chas S. 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Segei Aksyonov, who has been placed in charge of the Crimean peninsula, which Russia recently snatched from Ukraine, called the holiday \"cultural colonisation.\" Meanwhile, a spokes-priest for the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"culture\"","block_context":{"text":"culture","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=culture"},"img":{"alt_text":"Sergei_Aksyonov_3486318b","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Sergei_Aksyonov_3486318b-300x187.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14218,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=14218","url_meta":{"origin":7807,"position":2},"title":"Upcoming Zoom with Robin Douglas, Sasha Chaitow","author":"Chas S. 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Newly Celtophile, I was all excited about seeing Neolithic monuments and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"Take the door to the Dutch Consulate, but go up four flights.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aristotelous-sm.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aristotelous-sm.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aristotelous-sm.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4546,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4546","url_meta":{"origin":7807,"position":4},"title":"First Impressions from EASR, Contemporary Esotericism Conferences","author":"Chas S. 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From The Catholic Herald (UK): \"The Church\u2019s life-and-death struggle with Santa Muerte: The Church in the Americas is sounding the alarm over a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Catholicism\"","block_context":{"text":"Catholicism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=catholicism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/santa-Muerte.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7812,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807\/revisions\/7812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}