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Icons (or ikons) are symbolic pictures, usually depicting Christ, the Virgin Mary, or the saints. They are an important part of Orthodox worship and liturgical life. Icons help us encounter the grandeur of the mysteries of God through our bodily senses. Icons provide beauty in worship, teach theology, present those of the faith to imitate, and are helpful in transforming us. Most important of all, icons help us experience the Heavenly Kingdom on earth. Although the use of icons is misunderstood by some as idolatry, icons are not worshipped. Icons are venerated or paid honorable reverence, as are other objects of the faith, such as the cross. Worship is reserved to God alone. This category provides links to icons and to articles related to icons.

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• Aidan Hart Icons

  http://www.aidanharticons.com/
  Includes over 200 icons and frescoes by Aidan Hart, plus over 20 articles on iconography and church architecture.

• Andrei Rublev Museum

  http://www.artmag.com/museums/a_russie/arumoro1.html#anchor516213
  Moscow, Russia; includes a selection of icons from their permanent collection.

• Archangel Icons

  http://archangelicons.com/
  Traditional byzantine orthodox icons by iconographer Michael Kapeluck.

• Art Gallery:Russian icons

  http://www.christusrex.org/www2/art/icons.htm
  A gallery of Russian icons, all thumbnailed and with preview and both high and low res images.

• Byzantine Art Icons

  http://www.byzarticon.gr/
  Features the work and technique of the studio of Greek iconographers Maria Sigalas-Spanopoulos and Nikolas Spanopoulos.

• Byzantine Icons

  http://www.byzantineicons.ro/
  Icons painted on wood according the ancient byzantine technique, by Maria Elisabeta Bonef.

• Carrington Sacred Art

  http://carringtonsacredart.com/
  Sacred icon paintings, by artist Kathryn Carrington.

• Georgian Iconography

  http://www.iconography.narod.ru/index.html
  The history of Georgian orthodox crafts, handmade icons and iconography. Present Christian icons in enamel, with embossing, written by modern Georgian iconographers.

• Iconart.ro

  http://www.iconart.ro/
  Icons made by Camelia Munteanu (Bucharest, Romania).

• Iconia Studio

  http://www.iconia.ro/
  Selection of orthodox icons painted by Daniela Jurescu.

• Icons of the Saris Museum at Bardejov

  http://www.lemko.org/art/bardejov/ikona1.html
  Gallery of various subjects located in Slovakia.

• Ikons: Windows into Heaven

  http://www.pallasweb.com/ikons/
  Includes the history and development of iconography, details of the craft, examples of icons and other work of Bob Atchison.

• Izograph Studio

  http://www.izograph.com/
  Icons written by iconographer Xenia Pokrovsky, one of a few people in the former USSR who revived iconography in the late 1960s during the communist reign.

• Russian Icons Gallery

  http://www.ne.jp/asahi/jun/icons/
  Brief history, religious and cultural background, aesthetical analysis,and critiques of Russian Icons. In English and Japanese.

• Russian orthodox icons

  http://www.iconpaint.ru/
  Virtual gallery of the iconpainter Olga Kuznetsova, from St. Petersburg (Russia).

• Seraphic Restorations

  http://www.seraphicrestorations.com/
  Icons written by the hand of iconographer Marek Czarnecki, a student of Russian Orthodox iconographer Ksenia Pokrovsky, who founded the Izograph School in Moscow.

• Tatiana Vartanova

  http://www.christusrex.org/www2/vartanova/
  Icon artist and restorations. A description of the artist and her work.

• Velikiy Novgorod

  http://www.novgorod.ru/english/
  Features works created in this ancient Russian city.

• Zograff

  http://zograff.tripod.com/
  A Gallery of wall-paintings and icons from Bulgarian authors: Nedyalko Jekov, Yordan Ivanov, Dimitar Peev, Vassil Yanev, Radoslav Hristov.

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