icon

(noun)

An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.

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Examples of icon in the following topics:

  • Icon Painting in Byzantine Russia

    • Like Byzantine icons, Russian icons were usually small-scale paintings on wood.
    • Russian icon painters flourished throughout the Byzantine period.
    • The work of Andrei Rublev, a Russian icon painter in the fifteenth century, is considered to be the pinnacle of Byzantine Russian icon painting.
    • The icon was stolen and likely destroyed in 1904.
    • In the icon of Nicolas and Geasimus, the two saints, the icon, and the background are realistically rendered.

  • Painting in the Early Byzantine Empire

    • Icons were more religious than aesthetic in nature.
    • Thus, the doctrine of deification is conveyed by icons.
    • Most icons incorporate some calligraphic text naming the person or event depicted.
    • Documentation exists to prove the use of icons as early as the fourth century.
    • This icon of St.

  • Painting in the Late Byzantine Empire

    • Many icons at this time were panels painted on both sides.
    • One icon depicts the Virgin Mary on one side and the Annunciation on the other side.
    • Early icons produced by the Cretan School follow many of the earlier Byzantine traditions.
    • However, many icons retained the traditional gold backgrounds.
    • In this icon, St.

  • Icons and Iconoclasm

    • Emperor Leo III (717-741) and his successors banned the worship of icons and encouraged the persecution of those who venerated images.
    • The Byzantine Iconoclasm encompasses two periods in the history of the Byzantine Empire when religious images of icons came under scrutiny by religious and imperial authorities within the Orthodox Church and the temporal imperial hierarchy.
    • Iconoclasm, Greek for "image-breaking," is the deliberate destruction within a culture of the culture's own religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religious or political motives.

  • Romanesque Sculpture: Mary as the Throne of Wisdom

    • In Christian iconography, sedes sapientiae ("The Throne of Wisdom") is an icon of the Mother of God in majesty.
    • When the Virgin is depicted in sedes sapientiae icons and sculptural representations, she is seated on a throne with the Christ Child on her lap.
    • In addition to Romanesque sculpture, the sedes sapientiae icon appeared in illuminated manuscripts, frescoes, mosaics, and seals of the time.
    • The icon additionally possesses emblematic verbal components: the Virgin as the Throne of Wisdom is a trope of Damiani or Guibert de Nogent, based on their typological interpretation of the passage in the Books of Kings that describes the throne of Solomon (I Kings 10: 18–20, repeated at II Chronicles 9: 17–19).

  • Painting in the Middle Byzantine Empire

    • Onesimus, and an icon of the Virgin and Child.
    • The Lamentation of Christ is an iconic scene that depicts the Virgin Mary hold and mourning her dead son, just after Christ has been removed from the cross.
    • The Theotokos of Vladimir, an icon of the Virgin and Child, represents the new style of icons that were created in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
    • These icons depict emotion, compassion, and the growing trend in spirituality.
    • The image was given as a gift to the Grand Duke of Kiev in 1131 by the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople and is an important and protective icon of the Russian cities of Vladimir and Moscow and the country of Russia itself.

  • Objects of Worship in the Middle Byzantine Empire

    • Personal objects (psalters and triptychs), reliquaries, and icons were popular objects of worship during the Middle Byzantine period.
    • Icons remained popular devotional objects during the Byzantine period.
    • The images were often painted panels and the display of icons surged following the end of Iconoclasm in the ninth century.
    • Many icons, once reaching this status, would be furthered objectified and protected through the addition of custom gilded frames or gold or silver cases that covered the entirety of the image except for the face of the subject.
    • Other icons, such as a ninth-century depiction of the Crucifixion, contained imagery on both sides.

  • Prague

    • Medieval Prague became an important cultural center, and iconic examples of gothic architecture were built in during this period.

  • Temple Style of the South

    • However, some temples are dedicated to several deities, and others are dedicated to murtis in an iconic form.

  • Painting and Architecture

    • Instead, paintings were iconic.