Icon: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Kurt Weitzmann, The Icon: Holy Images—Sixth to Fourteenth Century (1978).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Article title updated for style. Nov 08, 2026
Added information about iconography techniques. Aug 16, 2022
Add new Web site: Art Encyclopedia - Icon Painting. Aug 22, 2019
Media added. Jul 31, 2019
Bibliography revised and updated. Sep 07, 2007
Added new Web site: Russian Painting. Jun 27, 2006
Added new Web site: Russian Painting. Jun 27, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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