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What is an Icon, Meaning, History, and Iconographers
 



The word Icon comes from the Greek word eikon which means image, the same word that describes the creation of man in God’s image and likeness. Icons are Apostolic, and healing, and even pre-date the written Gospels. The first icon was made miraculously by Jesus Christ Himself, and the next icons were made by the Holy Apostle Luke. Here are gathered many of the great icon treasures of the world, by many of the greatest masters of iconographic art. You will find five icons attributed to St. Luke’s own hand, many of the unsigned masters of the Byzantine era, St. Andrei Rublev, the acknowledged greatest iconographer of Russia, the famous post-Byzantine iconographer Theophan the Cretan, Moscow’s Armory School founder Simon Ushakov, and many, many others. This is great art, and these are great Christian art treasures, across a spectrum of centuries and millennium, from the historic and living Church as it has expressed itself in many cultures, both East and West. There is a wide variety of icons from different ages, schools, and iconographers, as well as from many specific locations represented such as St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai; Holy Dionysiou Monastery and Holy Stavro-Nikita Monastery on Mount Athos, and many other historic monasteries in Russia, Serbia, and Macedonia where there are large selections of famous and historic icons.
 






If you are an Orthodox Christian, your Church was founded in 33AD by Jesus Christ, the Son of God, officially beginning at Pentecost with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. (Acts 2) The Orthodox Church is now 2000 years old, and has maintained an unbroken historical and doctrinal connection to the earliest Tradition of the Apostles.
 




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