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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 271 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ICON (through the Latinized See also:form, from Gr. eixiav, portrait, See also:image)  , generally any See also:image or portrait-figure, but specially the See also:term applied to the representations in the Eastern See also:Church of sacred personages, whether in See also:painting or See also:sculpture, and particularly to the small See also:metal plaques in archaic See also:Byzantine See also:style, venerated by the adherents of the See also:Greek Church . See See also:ICONOCLASTS; IMAGE-See also:WORSHIP; BYZANTINE See also:ART . The term " iconography," once confined to the study of engravings (q.v.), is now applied to the See also:history of portrait images in See also:Christian art, though it is also used with a qualifying See also:adjective of Greek, See also:Roman and other art .

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