Monastery - Monastic Items from Agion Oros

The term ‘icon’ describes a sacred painting depicted on board. A sacred painting art work depicted on board is called 'icon'. "Icon" is a sacred painting depicted on board. Actually, the word could be used for any image, regardless of materials and techniques that were used. Regardless of the materials and techniques that were used, the word used for any image. Any image can be called an 'icon', despite any materials and techniques that were used. But generally speaking, works on board produced in the Byzantine and Slavic and   Byzantine cultures fall into this definition. But works on board produced in the Byzantine and Slavic and   Byzantine cultures fall into this definition, generally speaking   The word ‘icon’ comes from the Russian "ikon", which in turn comes from the ancient "ikona", from the verb eikenai, which means ‘to like’, ‘to appear’. The Greek word "ikona", from the verb eikenai, which means ‘to like’, ‘t...