Icone e santi d'Oriente by Alfredo Tradigo

A Guide to Imagery #10

Icone e santi d'Oriente

Alfredo Tradigo

383 pages 2004

1 edition

nonfiction art history religion informative lighthearted 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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