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Icone e santi d'Oriente by Alfredo Tradigo

Icone e santi d'Oriente

A Guide to Imagery #10

Alfredo Tradigo

383 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction art history religion informative lighthearted slow-paced
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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 wo...

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