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Icon painting is a specific system of symbols that became the language of the Church. Dionysius Areopagit stated that icons should have similarity and dissimilarity. The similarity is to make the Saint recognizable and dissimilarity is to show that it is only the allegory, not a mirror reflection. A picture expresses emotions, an icon contains the mind and intuition. A picture shows the mood, an icon shows the state of the personality. A picture shows a story, an icon leads to the infinity. Some people think that icon painters didn’t know the perspective views and the anatomy of the human body. In fact the size shows the rank. For example demons are shown smaller than angels, Christ is bigger than Apostles and so on.  Read more...

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