Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church by Alfredo Tradigo

Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church

A Guide to Imagery #10

Alfredo Tradigo with Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)

383 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction art history religion informative slow-paced
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An icon (from the Greek word "eikon," "image") is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in Greece and Russia. It was believed that these wo...

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