History of Icons
Technique of Icons
Symbols of Colors
Symbols of Numbers
Popular Symbols
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The people against icons


What is the iconoclasts?
100

True or False: Evil is represented in icons.

What is false?
100

The color that represents purity.

What is white?

100

The number that represents perfection.

What is seven?

100

The brazen serpent of the Old Testament represented this symbol.

What is the cross?
200

The period of art in the 1500s that influenced Coptic icons.

What is the Renaissance?

200

The name of the halo around a saint in an icon.

What is a nimbus?

200

The color of the martyrs as well as Christ.

What is scarlet/red?

200

This number represents the tribes of Israel, the disciples of Christ, and the doors of heaven.

What is twelve?

200

The Lord fed the multitudes this food as well as bread, signifying He is the Bread of Life.

What is fish?

300

The period of icons in the 1st-2nd Century.

What is the Period of Symbols?

300

The type of paint used is mixed with water and vinegar for preservation.

What is egg tempera?

300

The color that mostly makes up the bosom of the altar and represents the heavenly life

What is blue?

300

Baby boys were circumcised on the _____ day in the Old Testament.

What is 8th?

300

This symbol stresses the importance of fasting and praying, as without both, you cannot reach heaven.

What is the bird?

400

The art Isaac Fanous was inspired by.

What is pharaonic art?

400

True or False: We do not worship the Icon’s materials, but God who is represented by the Icon.

What is True?

400

This symbol appears on the icon of the Annuciation of Saint Mary as well as the Lord's baptism.

What is a dove?

500

The council that led to a rise in iconography.

What is the 8th Ecumenical Council?

500
The person who called icons "visual theology" (also painted the bosom in our altar).

What is Stefan Rene?

500

This symbol represents faithful people led by the Good Shepherd?

What is the lamb?

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