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apostles Balkans began Benaki Museum borrowed Bulgarian Byzantine art Byzantine icons Byzantine Tradition Cathedral colour complete icon pictured Constantinople decorated detail shown earliest icon Early Christian Church early icons Edessa enamel figures in icon fourteenth century Hagia Sophia icon depicting icon of St icon painters icon pictured opposite icon showing icon style iconoclasts iconodules iconography iconostasis Icons Spread Westwards Idol to Icon John Climacus Kiev to Moscow Macedonian Renaissance mandylion miniatures monastery of St monastery on Mount Mongols monks mosaic icon Moscow The Russian Mount Athos Mount Sinai murals Museum in Athens Novgorod Orthodox overleaf portraits prototype Pskov religious Rublev Russian icon painting Russian Schools saints scenes Serb Serbian icon seventeenth century Sinai icons sixteenth century St Catherine's monastery St Demetrius St George St John St Nicholas Stefan Nemanja Stroganov School techniques tenth century Theophanes the Greek thirteenth century triptychs twelfth century Virgin Mary Vladimir Vladimir-Suzdal worship of icons Zagorsk