holy images
Venerated religious artwork
Holy images are religious pictures, statues, or icons depicting sacred figures—Christ, the Virgin Mary, saints, or divine scenes.
In traditions like Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism, holy images serve as devotional aids and objects of veneration: Pilgrims kissed the holy images.
Protestant reformers often rejected them as idolatrous, sparking iconoclastic movements that destroyed religious art.
- sacred artDevotional visual expression
- haloLuminous ring overhead
- mosaicInlaid pictorial arrangement
- crossPass from side to side
- prayer candleReligious flame in container
angel · icon · veneration · fresco · saint · pilgrimage · miracle story · consecration · Byzantine art · ex-voto · illuminated manuscript · shrine · retablo · enamelwork · altar · votive offering · blessed object · wood carving
- religious printsprayer cards, sacred imagery, biblical scenes, nativity scenes, crucifixion
- Byzantine iconsicon painting, Russian icons, iconography, Orthodox icons, Byzantine art
- Hindu DeitiesVishnu, Shiva, Brahma, Ganesha, Ganesh
holy imagescommercial art
Visual work for profit
pornography · graven images · idols · decorative art · civic art