Orthodox Byzantine Icons

Orthodox icons are part of the traditional non-cut points. It must not only as conquests church interior decoration and Orthodox worship thing, but the Orthodox believers into everyday life, becoming a unique cultural and artistic traditions.
Orthodox icons of both theology and art. If the origin of retroactive icon,
It has both contact and differences between the early Christian art

Aesthetic sense of Christian symbols and symbolic first painting in the field of development. In early Christianity, and there is no sense that we are now icons. Moment of the beginning of the Christian underground tomb cave paintings ------ symbolic nature. Underground cave tomb early Jewish Christians modeled underground cave tomb built, Christians hiding in here to commemorate the martyrdom of those who held the liturgy and other activities.

Roman tomb underground cave art first Christian art, these murals are basically not what we are talking about icons (Christ, saints or biblical portrait of the history of the event), but a special symbol, they are used to express about the content of some idea of Christ and the Church, and the Old and New Testaments "Bible" Scripture and prayer book coincides godfather. Some of these symbols or themes from the "Bible" as the boat, fish, sheep, mouth rank olive branch dove, vines and other: some from polytheism, such as Orpheus. Of course, not painting Orpheus himself, it is important that he had to go to hell, to symbolize Christ come down to earth to save the human ancestor。. But these symbolic expression of the "Bible" in the image of the icon contains the seeds。

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