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Icon is a Greek word which means a picture simulator or identical
and in the orthodox tradition it is a picture that resembles a
person (Christ, Virgin Mary, Saints... ) or a holy scene which is
drawn on wood according to especial techniques and traditions.
Iconography has an organic link with Coptic theology indeed it is the other face and language in which its letters are being in harmony through colors and lines. The growth of this Art hasn't been depended on human imaginations or his own experience, but it has been flourished and created its rolls and basis from eastern church theology. It has built its characters through out the generations of eminent artist. From here, Icon presents integral religious beauty based on refusal of all common visual rolls of similarity, equality and dimensional view aiming by this to embody the right vision of faith and hope "For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is not hope at all. who hopes of what he already has ?" Romans 8:24. "So we fix our eyes not on what of seen but in what of unseen for what is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal" II Corinthians 4:18. Exceeding the period of symbols to gather with starting and flourishing of paintings and pictures in the beginning of the 4th Century, churches took after drawing icons aiming to ensure the real expression of Orthodox faith. Nowadays Icons are not found only in churches, but you can find them also at homes and praying holes, and they may be obtained as especial and precious gifts.
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