Icons and Iconoclasm in Byzantium. Definition of Icons Icons (from the Greek eikones ) are sacred images representing the saints, Christ, and the Virgin , as well as narrative scenes such as Christ's Crucifixion .
While today the term is most closely associated with wooden panel painting , in Byzantium icons could be crafted in all media, including marble, ivory, ceramic, gemstone, precious metal, enamel, textile, fresco, and mosaic. Form and Function of Icons Icons ranged in size from the miniature to the monumental. Czestochowska. Spas_vsederzhitel_sinay. 113-b29f7.