Icons

Question 1

Icon

Answer 1

Sacred image used as an aid prayer, mainly in Orthodox Churches

Question 2

What are iconographers?

Answer 2

Artists who create icons

Question 3

What are all icons painted on?

Answer 3

Wood

Question 4

What are the eyes on icons like?

Answer 4

Tend to be bigger

Question 5

What is the nose like in icons?

Answer 5

Nose long and narrow

Question 6

What is the mouth like in icons?

Answer 6

Mouth small, lips closed

Question 7

Describe the hands in icons?

Answer 7

○Long and thin
○May be holding something
○May be pointing towards something
○May be raised in blessing

Question 8

In an icon, what do the colours gold and silver represent?

Answer 8

Holiness and power of God

Question 9

In an icon, what does the colour blue represent?

Answer 9

Heaven

Question 10

In an icon, what does the colour red represent?

Answer 10

Royalty

Question 11

In an icon, what does the colour white represent?

Answer 11

Presence of God