and history

130 line drawings

most devastatingly

and microscopic paint fragments taken from actual works of art

John Harris is a former senior editor at Getty Publications

Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church Ages 0-3 and historyAlfredo Tradigo Explore the extensive imagery and fascinating stories of hundreds of Orthodox Christian icons and saints. 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 works acted as intermediaries between worshipers and the holy personages they depicted.