Icons and Iconoclasm

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Christ

Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai

6th century

Encaustic on panel

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Hagia Irene

Constantinople

Begun 6th century, rebuilt 8th century

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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

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Iconoclasm

Iconoclasm: literally “image breaking,” the belief in the destruction of icons

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Encaustic painting

Encaustic painting: a painting technique consisting of colored pigments being added to hot wax then painted on a surface, often wooden panel