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Byzantine Icons :: A Guide to Byzantine Icons on the Internet - from
Constantinople to Macedonia to Russia, and around the world.
Icons Explained is A Guide to Byzantine Icons, Frescoes and Mosaics on the Internet - From Constantinople to Macedonia to Russia, and around the world. The purpose of the site is to enable the visitor to (re)discover and experience the Beauty and Meaning of Byzantine Icons. Included is a large, comprehensive, illustrated database of images and annotated links to well over 11000 Byzantine* Icons. About four thousand (4000) of these are Medieval Byzantine Icons, while seven thousand (7000) of them are Contemporary Byzantine Icons. However, the site is not merely a collection of images. Key subjects, such as for example the Essential Feature of Icons, Incarnation and Iconoclasm, and Deisis and Iconostasis, are being entered into also. All of the site content together explains why Byzantine Icons are unique, sacred and treasured. (It should hereby understood that all subjects are centered on the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ.) Additional subjects help make the site into a Guide, or Internet Portal, to Byzantine Icons e.g. Common Icon Types, Ancient Byzantine Icons for Sale, Icon Painting Masters and Icon Painting Schools, How to Paint Icons and Frescoes, Guided Icon Tours, and Icon Galleries). (*'Byzantine' meaning Ancient, Medieval and Contemporary icons, frescoes and mosaics hand-painted in the Traditional Eastern Orthodox style.)
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