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Indeed, St. Luke the Evangelist was an iconographer credited with painting the first icon of the Theotokos, from life. Thus even icons of Mary are based on the real life appearance. It is only in the case of certain relatively obscure saints where iconography has presumably been forced to make a guess; iconography as a whole represents the largest and most doverse collection of portraits in existence the vast majority of which are based on the appearance of the subject in life, albeit stylized as a rule in order to represent the glorification of Theosis.
The Orthodox faith in the richness of its iconography is so vastly more dynamic and vibrant than degenerate iconoclastic Christianity that I have reached a point in my life where the sight of a church bereft of icons makes me ill. I recently saw a 3D computer model of the Hagia Aophia before its conversion into a mosque, but the mere sight of it devoid for technical reasons of iconography was deeply unpleasant to behold.
The Orthodox faith in the richness of its iconography is so vastly more dynamic and vibrant than degenerate iconoclastic Christianity that I have reached a point in my life where the sight of a church bereft of icons makes me ill. I recently saw a 3D computer model of the Hagia Aophia before its conversion into a mosque, but the mere sight of it devoid for technical reasons of iconography was deeply unpleasant to behold.
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