This icon was made over 500 years after this event, when the shrunken Byzantine Empire was under the threat of invasion by the Ottoman Turks. What role did icons play in the Byzantine Empire?

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Paintbrush and palette in hand, the Serbian Orthodox priest filled virtually every square inch of interior wall and ceiling with icons ... figures in the timeless Byzantine style, drawing the ...

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seventh earl of Elgin and British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, which then ruled Greece. Liapis said the Byzantine icon would need restoration as it was painted over before it was smuggled out ...

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This icon was made over 500 years after this event, when the shrunken Byzantine Empire was under the threat of invasion by the Ottoman Turks. What role did icons play in the Byzantine Empire?