Icon of the eyes of the historian
 

Interesting conversation. Written about a lot of things, but here clearly and with great knowledge of the matter so immediately obvious difference between Eastern and Western religious traditions, religious art

"in the Paris museum hosted an unprecedented season of sacred art.
Opened it exhibits the west, or rather the Italian art - paintings XIV-XV centuries from Florence and Siena to the Museum Jacquemart-André, and Philip and Filippino Lippi in the Luxembourg Museum. Then in Paris Little Palace (Petit Palais) opened a unique exhibition of "Mount Athos and the Byzantine Empire. Treasures of the holy mountain." For the first time in the French capital on display ancient gospel with miniatures (not only Greek, but also Georgian, and Slavonic) and icons from Mount Athos monasteries. The Louvre opened the exhibition "Early altarpiece, or re-enactment of the sacred - the mature works of sculpture of the Middle Ages, from the XII century to the beginning of XV. Finally, in Vinsennsky lock (on the outskirts of Paris) brought the meeting of Bulgarian icons from IV to XIX century "

http://www.rfi.fr/acturu/articles/115/article_3673.asp