Thanks to Fr. Ted for this illuminating, if brief, history on icons as used by the Eastern Orthodox Church.

“Compared to metal and mosaic icons, the painted wooden icon is perhaps the longest lived subcategory of the Byzantine artistic medium of portable devotional icons. The earliest collection of wooden painted icons is found at St. Catherine Monastery in Sinai: some twenty-seven pieces dated to the sixth through seventh centuries. They are all painted in […]

via A Brief History of Icons — Fr. Ted’s Blog