Eastern Orthodox icons

thumb|upright=1.25|The Ladder of Divine Ascent (icon)|Ladder of Divine Ascent depicts monks ascending to [[Jesus in heaven in the top right. 12th century, Saint Catherine's Monastery.]]

thumb|Five-panel Deesis row (center), iconostasis in the Cathedral of the Annunciation in the [[Moscow Kremlin by Theophanes the Greek, 1405|328x328px]]

depiction of Christ

artistic representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus

thumb|Icon of the Deesis – St. Catherine's Monastery Sinai, 12th century thumb| Great Deesis with Prophets; 16th century; Walters Art Museum In Byzantine art, and in later Eastern Orthodox iconography generally, the Deësis or Deisis (, ; , "prayer" or "supplication") is a traditional iconic representation of Christ in Majesty or Christ Pantocrator: enthroned, carrying a book, and flanked by the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist, and sometimes other saints and angels. Mary and John, and any other figures, are shown facing towards Christ with their hands raised in supplication on behalf of h

thumb|An early Christian painting of Noah praying in the gesture of orant right|thumb|Fresco in the Catacomb of Priscilla showing a Christian woman wearing a headcovering and praying in the orant posture thumb|Christian man praying in the gesture of orant, Catacombs of Rome#Catacombs of Domitilla|Catacombs of Domitilla, [[Rome]] Orans, a loanword from Medieval Latin orans () translated as "one who is praying or pleading", also orant or orante, as well as lifting up holy hands, is a posture or bodily attitude of prayer, usually standing, with the elbows close to the sides of the body and with t

thumb|An 18th-century painting of God the Father painting the image of [[Our Lady of Guadalupe, an unusual Marian image]] ' are Christian icons that are said to have come into existence miraculously, not created by a human. They are also called icons made without hands'. Invariably, these are images of Jesus or Mary, usually the Virgin and Child. In Eastern Orthodoxy, the most notable examples are the Mandylion, also known as the Image of Edessa, and the Hodegetria.

small Christian worship space

thumb|Patriarch Alexius II of Moscow wearing an engolpion (panagia) An encolpion (also engolpion, enkolpion; , , "on the chest"; plural: , ) is a medallion with an icon in the center worn around the neck by Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic bishops. The icon is normally surrounded by jewels (usually paste) and topped by an Eastern-style mitre. It often also has a small jewelled pendant hanging down at the bottom. The engolpion is suspended from the neck by a long gold chain, sometimes made up of intricate links. A portion of the chain will often be joined together with a small ring behind

iconographic cloth depicting the dead body of Christ

art movement

thumb|Icon of [[Our Lady of Kazan covered with a gilded silver riza.]] thumb|Riza removed from its icon.

thumb|180px|A statue of Onufri in Berat, Albania Onufri (; ; ), Onouphrios of Neokastro or Onouphrios Argytes, was a 16th century Archpriest of Elbasan and the most important painter of Orthodox murals and icons in the early post-Byzantine era in Albania. He founded a school of painting in Berat and extended his influence as far afield as Kastoria. Trained in Venice, he infused Albanian icon painting with the artistic climate of the Italian Renaissance. His works reveal a great degree of originality and ecclesiastically combined post-Byzantine and Gothic elements. Onufri's works played a decis

thumb|250px|The empty throne with cushion, crux gemmata and cloth, flanked by Saints Peter and Paul. [[Arian Baptistery, Ravenna, early 6th century.]]

museum in Berat, Albania

museum in Greece

major Russian icon-painting school

case or shelf for keeping and displaying religious icons

religious icon

thumb|The crown (venets) and the tsata from Pskov, The Pskov Museum, 17th c. Tsata () is a form of jewelry in the shape of a turned over crescent, typically made from gold or silver. It is placed at the bottom of a riza as a part of the icon decoration in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The tsata looks like a gorget or neck ring. The word derives from the Old Church Slavonic world tsęta (цѧта; meaning "small coin") which in turn derives from . It is specifically attached to the riza so that it is placed under the face of a saint, and it typically fastened by its edges to the inner bottom edge of

Georgian encaustic icon