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ORMALLY, Yer Host is bothered by the rather spooky and romantic style of late 19th Century Russian Icons. I have no theological issue, as do some: I just don’t like ‘em.

The Shrine of the Holy Whapping introduces us to the work of the Russian artist and iconographer, Viktor Vasnetsov. His style is somewhere between the spooky Russian style and the Beuron Art School which combines “elements of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine and early Christian art”. Some if this German style is in the Abbey of St Hildegard.

Viktor Vasnetsov seems to have found an interesting combo of Russian style and “traditional” iconography that looks very much like some period illustrations for fairytales.