icon painting
Byzantine religious art
Icon painting is the art of creating religious images—icons—in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine traditions.
These paintings depict Christ, the Virgin Mary, saints, and biblical scenes on wooden panels using egg tempera and gold leaf.
The practice follows strict theological conventions; painters traditionally fast and pray during the work, viewing themselves as channels rather than artists.
She studied icon painting at a monastery in Greece.
- halosGlowing circles of light
- reliquaryContainer for sacred remains
- holy objectsReligiously venerated items
- gold leafUltra-thin decorative metal
- sacred imageVenerated religious artwork
Andrei Rublev · veneration · sacred artifacts · Virgin Mary · gilding · divine light · Byzantine Empire · gesso · encaustic · egg yolk · liturgy · Christ · underpainting · spirituality · red corner · religious · Eastern Orthodoxy · wood panel
- Muscovite RussiaIvan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Romanov dynasty, tsars, boyars
- visual artdrawing, fine art, portrait, sketch, paintings
- Fine Artportrait, landscape, sketch, watercolor, drawing
- paintingwatercolor, acrylic paint, oils, oil paints, watercolors
- World ArtsAfrican art, Asian art, European art, Indian art, Japanese art
- art techniquesdrawing, sketching, shading, blending, cross-hatching
icon paintingsculpture
Shaped three-dimensional art
fresco · mosaic · bronze casting · wood carving · stained glass
icon paintingabstract expressionism
Nonrepresentational art emphasizing spontaneous emotion
avant-garde art · conceptual art · photorealism · impressionism · art for art's sake