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In art, the term Icon (from Greek εικων, eikon, "image") commonly refers to religious paintings in Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern-rite Catholic jurisdictions. In churches, icons are commonly displayed on an iconostasis.

In a broader sense, icons are artistic visual representations or symbols of anything considered holy and divine, such as God, saints or deities. An icon could be a painting (including relief painting), sculpture, or mosaic, but usually it is tempera on the wood plank.

The Iconostasis 17th/18th cent, Historic Museum in Sanok, Poland

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Iconostasis [edit]

Main gallery: Iconostasis.

  • The nave of Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral, Chicago, Illinois

  • iconostasis in Bogusza Niżna

  • Moscow Archangel Michael Cathedral interior with iconostasis

  • Royal Doors in iconostasis

  • North door of iconostasis

Riza [edit]

Main category: Riza

  • Riza of Our Lady of Tikhvin

  • Virgin Mary Three-handed in riza from gold and silver

  • Two elements of riza from silver

  • Riza from Christ of Eliazar icon

  • Icon of Trinity in riza in iconostasis

  • Riza kremlin.jpg

Types [edit]

  • Icon for temple used in iconostasis (Virgin Mary)

  • Small icon for home use (Seven sleepers)

  • Two-sided portable icon for Crucession (A. Our Lady of Smolensk. B. Ss. Nicolas, princes Boris and Gleb)

  • Icon with foldable side flaps

  • Folding icon

Сondition [edit]

  • Half of icon was left without clearing to show how drying oil become dark during ages

  • Various layers of paint are keept (note the gold field, right, and the green that was under)

  • Process of clearing

  • Warped board

  • Loss of the layer of paint

  • Bad edges

  • Dark drying oil and loss of layer of paint

  • Сrack and holes from riza's nails

Encaustic icons [edit]

  • Christ Pantocrator, :encaustic painting on panel, St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, 6th-7th century

  • Saint Peter, a 6th-century encaustic icon from Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai

  • Virgin and Child with angels and Sts. George and Theodore. C.600

  • Thaddeus of the Seventy Disciples, after 994

  • Icon of Our Lady, VI c.

Byzantine icons [edit]

Main category: Byzantine icons

  • St. George

  • Annunciation. XIII c.

  • Descent from the cross, XIV c.

  • Archangels Michael and Gabriel, XII c.

  • Annunciation from the Church of St Climent in Ohrid, R.o.Macedonia (first quarter of the 14th century).

  • Gabriel, XIV c.

  • The Ladder of Divine Ascent, XII c.

  • Resurrection of Lazarus, late 14th — early 15th Century.

  • Dead Christ, XII c.

  • Anastasia of Sirmium, XV c.

  • Crucifixion, XII c.

Greek icons [edit]

Main category: Icons of Greece

  • Saint Christopher as cynocephalus

  • Crucifixion by Theophanes the Cretan

  • Our Lady Andronikovskaya

  • Second Coming, c.1700

  • Saint Charalampus, XVII c.

Cretan school [edit]

  • Our Mother of Perpetual Help, XIII-XIV c.

  • Crucifixion by Emmanuil Lampardos, XVII c.

  • Entombment of Christ by Emmanuel Tzanes Bounialis, XVII c.

  • Saint George and Saint Demetrius by Michael Damaskenos

  • Dormition of Virgin Mary by El Greco (his early period)

Russian icons [edit]

Main category: Icons of Russia

Early Russian icons [edit]

XIII century [edit]

  • Madonna The Belozerskaya

  • Great Panagia from the Saviour Minster in Yaroslavl

  • Ss. Peter and Paul from the Church of Ss. Peter and Paul, Belozersk

  • Savior Zlaty Vlasy

  • Ss. Boris and Gleb

  • Tolgskaya

Classical russian icons [edit]

Moscow school [edit]

  • Angels at Mamre (Holy Trinity) by A.Rublev (ru:Троица (икона Рублёва), c.1420

  • Transfiguration by Feofan Grek, c.1410.

  • The Savior "Not Made By Hands" by A.Rublev, 1410s.

  • Crucifixion by Dionisius

  • Dormition by Feofan Grek

  • Boris and Gleb astride, mid. XIV c.

  • Good felon, XIV c.

  • Savior Furious Eye mid. XIV c. (ru:Спас Ярое око)

  • St.Paul, XV c.

  • Christ Pantocrator, ca 1500

  • Virgin of Burning bush, 16 c.

Novgorod school [edit]

  • St. George and the dragon, late XV c.

  • Crucifixion, XIV c.

  • Fiery Furnace, XV c.

  • Saint John Klimak, XIII c.

  • St. Vladimir, Boris and Gleb, XV-XIV c.

  • Sophia the Martyr with three daughters: Faith, Hope and Love

Pskov school [edit]

  • Prophet Elijah, XII c.

  • Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, XV c.

  • Stt. Paraskeva, Gregory of Nazianzus, John Chrysostom and Basil of Caesarea, XV c.

  • Saint George, XVI c.

  • Luke the Evangelist painting Vladimirskaya icon of Our Lady

  • Elijah's firey ascent into heaven

  • Deisis, first half of the 14th Century. Pskov. From St. Nicholas' church, Pskov, Russian Museum

Tver school [edit]

  • Metropolitan Peter of Moscow, XV c.

  • Icon of virgin Mary

  • Palm Sunday

Icons after XVII c. [edit]

Icons of XVII c. [edit]

  • Saint Christopher

  • Saint Theodore's miracle

  • Saint Mary of Egypt

  • Gabriel by Simon Ushakov

  • Feast of the Cross by Guriy Nikitin

  • Christ Emmanuel by Simon Ushakov

  • Prophet Daniel with lions

  • Mitropolit Aleksii

  • Icon of Lord's Prayer

  • Eleusa by Simon Ushakov

  • Sophia and Faith Hope Charity by Karp Zolotaryov

Icons of XVIII c. [edit]

  • St. Barbara

  • Presentation of Jesus at the Temple

  • Jesus Christ the Pantocrator (Spas v silakh)

  • Michael the Archangel. Iconostasis of Transfiguration church, Kizhi monastery, Karelia, north Russia

  • Mother of God "Znameniye" (The Sign)

  • Fiery furnace, 1776

  • Women at the grave, Kizhi.

  • The only begotten Son of God

  • Hodegetria by Kirill Ulanov, 1721

  • Archangel Michael — the Commander of the Fearsome Host. 1718.

Russian icons of XIX c. [edit]

  • Sergius of Valaam and Herman of Valaam

  • Moses and Burning bush

  • Saint Vasilij of Rjazan

  • Seven Sleepers

  • Mitrophan of Voronezh

  • Vision of Peter of Alexandria

  • Council of Seven Holy Archangels

Russian icons of XX c. [edit]

  • Vladimir of Kiev and St.Barbara, 1908-1917

  • John the Baptist, palekh miniature

  • Holy Trinity with saints, 1915

  • Feodosius of Chernigov, 1899-1908

  • Synaxis of the Siberian saints, c. 1918

Ukrainian icons [edit]

Main category: Icons of Ukraine

  • Our Lady of Pochaiv (16th century)

  • Our Lady of Balikinska (18–19th century)

  • Savior (18th century)

  • Unknown saint and scenes from her life

  • Icon of Virgin Dehtyarevska (1794)

Icons of Poland [edit]

Main category: Icons of Poland

  • Holy Mother of Ostra Brama

  • Black Madonna of Częstochowa

  • Saint Basil of Caesarea, Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Gregorius I Magnus, XVII c.

  • Crucifiction, XVI c.

Icons of Serbia [edit]

Main category: Icons of Serbia

  • Saint Arsenije

  • St. Tryphon of Campsada

  • Saint Anne with child Mary

Coptic icons [edit]

Main category: Coptic icons

  • St. Bishop Menas with Jesus

  • Archangel

  • St. Paul

  • Dormition of Virgin Mary

  • Saint Mercurius killing Roman Emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus

  • Crucifixion

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