TY - BOOK AU - Onasch, Konrad AU - Annemarie Schnieper TI - ICONS : Fascination and the Reality SN - 1878351532 U1 - 704.9482 PY - 1995////01/01 CY - New York PB - Riverside Book Company KW - Icons- Religious Aspects KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Art, Byzantine KW - Art, Russian KW - Christian Fine Arts KW - Iconography KW - Gods- Paintings KW - Religion- Christianity N1 - The beginnings of Christian fine art -- Icon centers and schools. The Byzantine tradition ; The Russian tradition -- Pictorial themes. Jesus Christ, the incarnate word of God ; The unaccompanied image of Christ ; Symbolic representations of Christ ; Trinitarian themes ; The unaccompanied image of the mother of God ; The Heavenly hosts ; The martyrs and saints -- Special forms and usage -- Painting techniques and artistic materials -- The pictorial language of icons -- The icon as work of art ER -