"In the art scholarship icons commonly referred to as images in the framework of Eastern Christian tradition on a solid surface (mainly at limes board covered with gesso, then there is alabaster, diluted with liquid glue) and equipped with special inscriptions and signs.
From the theological and religious studies in terms of icons are also mosaic, paintings and sculptures in any artistic way, if they eat the fruit set by the Seventh Ecumenical Council reverence. "
Gentlemen, you are just in different positions in the perception of the term icon, do not break the copies.
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