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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.
