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2,000 years of tradition

“To be in the Light is to be in an illuminating communion which reveals the icons of persons and things. This communion allows us to grasp their logoi as contained in divine thought, initiating these persons and things into their perfect wholeness: in other words,

through icons, persons and things are initiated into the beauty that God willed for them.”

Paul Evdokimov

 
Christianity holds the human figure as the focus of its visual expression. This is mainly due to its belief in the incarnation of the Logos, the second person of the Holy Trinity, as expressed in the first lines of St John’s Gospel:
‘and the Word was made flesh’
— ISAAC FANOUS
 
Therefore I boldly draw an image of the invisible God, not as invisible, but as having become visible for our sakes by partaking of flesh and blood
— St John of Damascus