Icons and Iconoclasm
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Christ
Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai
6th century
Encaustic on panel
Hagia Irene
Constantinople
Begun 6th century, rebuilt 8th century
Icon
Icon: literally means “image” or “representation” and, in the Byzantine empire, referred to devotional images of holy figures (Christ, the Virgin Mary, or the saints); the word also took on the meaning of portable devotional images, which could be made in any medium
Iconoclasm
Iconoclasm: literally “image breaking,” the belief in the destruction of icons
Encaustic painting
Encaustic painting: a painting technique consisting of colored pigments being added to hot wax then painted on a surface, often wooden panel
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