It shows the world of the Byzantine Empire not as it actually was, but as it needed to be if God was going to protect it. 'Icon' is simply the Greek word for picture, and this picture is about a ...

El Greco’s association with Toledo has played an important role in boosting tourism in this historical Castilian town.

Among the works is "a rare set of icons produced in the context of the renewal of the Greek Patriarchate of ... The Louvre's future Department of Byzantine Arts and Christianities in the East ...