The 7th Ecumenical Council, detail from:

The Saints and Feast of the Church Calendar

About: 1st half of 16th century

Medium and Support: Egg tempera on wood

Dimensions: 157.9 x 90.5 cm

Location: Recklinghausen, Ikonen-Museum, Germany

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“. . . incarnation, also truly human. This meant that Christ, if He is recognized as consubstantial with the Father, was the image of God in human form, and that His human nature could thus be depicted in images. It was the incarnation of God in Christ that made possible God’s pictorial depiction in the first place, and thus a rejection of images was, in this view, tantamount to a rejection of the Incarnation.

Those who venerated images countered the accusations of idolatry with the argument that it was not the physical matter of the image that was venerated, but the holy prototype, or, as the theologian Basil the Great put it: “The honour given the image passes to the prototype.” The images of Christ and the Saint may and should be venerated, with kisses, candles, incense, song etc., but they must not be worshipped, for worship is due to God alone.” (cited from TASCHEN/ICONS)

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