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ICON (through the Latinized form, from Gr. eixiav, portrait, image)

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 271 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: I27-INV
ICON (through the Latinized form, from Gr. eixiav, portrait, image) , generally any image or portrait-figure, but specially the
term
  applied to the representations in the Eastern
Church
  of sacred personages, whether in
painting
  or sculpture, and particularly to the small metal plaques in archaic
Byzantine
  style, venerated by the adherents of the Greek
Church
 . See ICONOCLASTS; IMAGE-
WORSHIP
 ;
BYZANTINE
  ART. The
term
  " iconography," once confined to the study of engravings (q.v.), is now applied to the history of portrait images in Christian art, though it is also used with a qualifying
adjective
  of Greek, Roman and other art.


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