Understanding the Icon

Icons express in images the spiritual realities that are inexpressible in words and inaccessible to our rational mind. Begun in the 4^th Century, the iconographer merely strives to represent accurately the spiritual truths as set forth by the Church instead of his or her personal interpretation of these truths. This is the main difference between icons and religious paintings. Figures, features, and faces in icons are not the subjects' realistic portraits but their symbolic likenesses as their bodies are transfigured by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is for this reason that icons are sometimes referred to as windows into heaven. Be with us to hear iconographer Irene Perez-Omer speak about iconography with digital images as a visual adjunct to her lecture.

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