The Meaning of Icons (English and German Edition)Includes 160 pages of text with drawings, 13 black and white and 51 full color plates. It is linen cloth and paper bound. In the last decades the art of icons has gained increased attention. Once icons were passed over by the art critics, or at most classified as popular art, although painters such as Matisse or Picasso went to Russia especially for the sake of studying this art. Most recently many books have been published on icon painting. Yet the