Reference Images & Museum Catalogs

General

• 📚 The Icon, Evan Brothers Ltd., 1982 English edition

Byzantine & Greek Schools

• 📚 The Glory of Byzantium, Metropolitan Museum of Art (A landmark catalog covering Byzantine art from 843–1261 AD).

• 📚 Byzantine Icons in the Benaki Museum – Covers Greek Byzantine and post-Byzantine icons.

• 📚 Icons from Mount Athos – A monastic archive collection showcasing icons from Athonite monasteries.

• 📚 Icons of Sinai: Holy Image + Hallowed Ground, Getty Museum (A collection from St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, one of the oldest Christian icon repositories)

• 🔗 Icon Collection of the Treasures of Byzantine Culture Museum, https://mbp.gr/en/wooden-icons

• 🔗 Menologion of Basil II, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menologion_of_Basil_II

• 🔗 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Icon Database – A digital archive of Greek Orthodox icons from various monasteries.

Cretan School

Iconographer Theophanis

• 📚 The Cretan Painter Theophanis: The Wall-Paintings of the Holy Monastary of Stavronikita, Manolis Chatzidakis

• 📚 The Painter Angelos and Icon-Painting in Venetian Crete, Maria Vassilaki, Variorium, 2009

• 📚 Manal for the Face and Hand, Icon Studio Jan Verdonk, Netherlands, 2024

• 📚 Neoklis Kolliopoulos Icons, Jan Verdonk, Netherlands, 2008

• 📚 The Teaching of the Master Iconographer Neoklis, Jan Verdonk, Netherlands, 2024

Sinai School

• 📚 Icons of Sinai: Holy Image + Hallowed Ground, The Getty Museum

Mount Athos School

•  📚 Museum Of Byzantine Culture Treasures Of Mount Athos - Catalogue Of The Exhibition At The Museum Of Byzantine Culture, Thessalonike, 1997

Russian Schools (Novgorod, Moscow, Stroganov)

• 📚 The Tretyakov Gallery’s Icon Collection – The largest collection of Russian icons, featuring works by Andrei Rublev.

• 📚 Icons of the Russian Museum (State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg) – A major Russian iconographic collection.

• 📚 The Icon Collection of the Trecyakov Gallery, Tretyakov Gallery

• 📚 Russian Church Art Today: Modern Orthodox Icons and Religious Painting, S. V Timchenko

• 📚 Old Russian Murals and Mosaics. From the XI to the XVI Century, Viktor Lazarev, Phaidon, London,1966

• 📚 Древнерусская Живопись в собрании Эрмитажа :  Иконопись, Книжная Миниатюра И Орнаментика XIII  - Начало XVII Века [Early Russian Painting in the Hermitage Collection: Icons, Book Miniatures and Ornaments: 13th – Early 17th Century], Косцова, Искусство, Санкт-Петербург, 1992 (Russian)

• 📚 Manuscript from the Dormition Cathedral : Early 15th-Century Gospels from the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin - No. 637 (Лицевая рукопись Успенского собора 1969 #637) , Ukhova & Pisarskya, 1969

• 🔗 The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine, https://www.tretyakovgallerymagazine.com/articles/2-2008-19/tretyakov-gallery-unveils-treasures-orthodox-icons-russia-ukraine-and-belarus (example given, use search engine) (Russian)

• ⛪ The Kremlin’s Iconostasis Collection – Russian Orthodox icons from the Assumption and Annunciation Cathedrals.

• 🏛️ Miracle-working Icons of the Mother of God – A Russian collection showcasing famous venerated icons

Iconographer Dionisy

• 🔗 Dionisy, http://www.dionisy.com/eng/

Iconographer St. Andre Rublev

• 🏛️ Andrei Rublev Museum Collection – Features icons from the medieval Moscow school, including The Trinity

• 🔗 Andrie Rublev, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Rublev

The Novograd School

• 📚 Novgorodian Icon-Painting, Viktor Lazarev, Mockba, 1981

The Moscow School

• 📚 Moscow school of Icon-Painting; Nikitch, Lazarev Viktor; Strelkova, G. V. (Translator)

Ukrainian Schools

• 📚 The Ukrainian Icon: From Byzantine Sources to the Baroque (1996), Liudmilla Milyaeva

• 🔗 The First Online Gallery of Ukrainian Sacred Art,  Icon.org.ua

• 📚 History of the Ukrainian Icon, 10th–20th Centuries (Istoriia ukr. ikony X–XX stolitt, 1996), Dmytro Stepovyk, [Ukranian - English]

• 📚 Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography (Harvard Univ. Press, 2002), Serhii Plokhy

• 📚 Ukrainian Icons of the XII–XVIII Centuries (1973), Sviatoslav Hordynsky, Philadelphia: Providence Association, [Ukranian]

• 📚 Ukrainian Icons, 13th–18th Centuries (Album, 2nd ed. 2008), Oleh Sydor (ed.), Rodovid Press, [English/Ukrainian]

• 📚 Heritage of Ages: Ukrainian Painting of the 14th–17th Centuries in Lviv Museum Collections(V. Sventsits’ka & O. Sydor, Lviv: Kamenyar, 1990)

• 📚 Ukrainian Iconography of the 12th–19th Centuries from the NAMU Collection (Kyiv: Artania Nova, 2005) 

Polish-Lithuanian School

• 📚 Icons of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Tomasz Torbus (A major reference for Orthodox and Uniate icons).

• 🏛️ The Icon Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw – A rare collection of Polish-Lithuanian Orthodox icons.

• 🏛️ Lithuanian Icons in the Vilnius Cathedral Treasury – Features Uniate and Orthodox Marian icons from the 17th–18th centuries.

Balkan Schools (Bulgarian, Serbian, Romanian)

Bulgarian

• 📚 Treasures of Bulgarian Icons, Tatyana Kirova (A study of Bulgarian medieval and post-Byzantine icons)

• 📚 Icons from the Rila Monastery (A catalog of Bulgarian Orthodox icons, with a focus on monastic traditions)

Serbian

• 📚 Serbian Icons: From the Medieval to the Baroque, Ljubomir Milanović (Showcases Serbian monastic and fresco-style icons)

• 🔗 Serbian Icons, https://www.blagofund.org

Romanian

• 🏛️ The Sibiu Brukenthal Museum (Romania)  (A famous collection of Romanian Transylvanian glass icons)

• 🏛️ The Romanian National Museum of Art (Bucharest)  (A state archive of Romanian religious art and icons)

American Orthodox Iconography

• 🏛️ Icons in America: The Collection of Dumbarton Oaks – A collection of Byzantine and post-Byzantine icons housed in the U.S..

• ⛪ Holy Trinity Monastery (Jordanville, NY) Icon Collection – A Russian Orthodox icon repository in the U.S..

• ⛪ St. Tikhon’s Monastery (Waymart, PA) Iconography Collection – Features Russian and contemporary American icons.

• 🎨 Sacred Murals Studio (Pennsylvania) – A visual reference for American Orthodox iconography projects.

Reference Images of Icons

To Be Categorized

• 📚 Icons of the Prosopon School, Prosopon School

• 📚 Miracle-working icons of the Mother of God, Chudotvornyye ikony Bozhiyey Materi & Wundertätige Ikonen der Gottesmutter, Haga Sophia Edition

• 📚 Masterpieces of the Tretyakov Gallery, Tretyakov Gallery

• 📚Byzantine Wall-Paintings in Rethymnon, Ioannis Spatharakis, Mitos, Rethymnon 1997

• 📚Holy Meteora, The Monastery of St Nicholas Anapavsas, Sofianos, Dimitrios et Tsigaridas, Euthymios, History and Art, Genesis Press (Greek/English)

• 📚Древнерусская Иконопись [Early Russian Icon Painting], Алпатов, Iskusstvo, Москва, 1974 (Russian/English)

• 📚A Brush with God, Peter Pearson, Church Publishing Inc.

• 📚Αριστουργήματα Μονής Πάτμου (Masterpieces of Patmos Monastery), KOYMOYNAOYPEA

• 📚ΕΙΚΟΝΕΣ ΤНΣ ΠΑΤΜΟΥ (Icons of Patmos): Questions of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Painting, Manolis Chatzidakis

• 📚AFFRESCHI E ICONE DALLA GRECIA. PALAZZO STROZZI, Myrtalē Acheimastu-Potamianu, Florence, 1986

• 📚VENETIAE QUASI ALTERUM BYZANTIUM, Chatzidake, Nano, Idryma ellenikou politismou

• 📚Σινα Οι Θησαυροι Της Ι. Μονης Αγιας Αικατερινης  [Sinai The Treasures Of The I. Monastery Of Saint Akaterina] General Supervision Konstantinos A. Manafis Professor of Byzantine Philology, University of Athens (Greek)

• 📚Ikony/Icons. The most beautiful icons in Polish collections, Dąb-Kalinowska (Polish / English)

• 📚Kanynins BuLavrivñs

• 📚Chilandar;  Dimitrije Bogdanovic, Vojislav J. Đurić, Dejan Medaković, Chilandar, Jugoslovenska Revija, Belgrade, 1978 (French)

• 📚The Zakynthos Museum, Mylona, Zoe A., Archaeological Receipts Fund/Ministry of Culture; 1st edition - 1998

• 📚Sinai - de schatten van het klooster, Mylona, Zoe A, evripidis (German)

• 📚Феофан Грек [Theophanes the Greek], М. Алпатов, Izobrazitelnoye Iskusstvo Publishers, Москва, 1979 (Russian)

• 📚Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art., Mylona, Zoe A., Ministry of culture, Athens, 1986

• 📚Oto Fresques et icones, l'art medieval serbe et macedonien, Bihalji-Merin, Brussel, Elsevier (French)

• 📚The Tretyakov Gallery, Tretyakov Gallery

• 📚Слово И Образ : Русские Житийные Иконы XIV - Начала ХХ Века [Word and Image : Russian Icons from the 14th to the 20th Century] Каталог Выставки [Exhibition Catalog], Москва, 2010 (Russian)

• 📚Лики Русской Иконы [Images of the Russian Icon], [This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition organized in Warsaw and Cracow], Popov, The Andrei Rublev Museum, Moscow, 1995 (Russian/English)

• 📚The State Tretyakov Gallery: History and Collections, Tretyakov Gallery

• 📚Московская икона: XIV-XVII BEKOB (Icons of Moscow: 14-17th Centuries), Энгелина Смирнова, ИЗДАТЕЛЬСКАЯ ПРОГРАММА ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВА, Moscow, 2008

• 📚The Double-Faced Tablets From The St. Sophia Catherdral in Novgorod, Lasarev, Iskusstvo Art Publishers, Moscow, 1983 (Russian / English)

• 📚 Икона и Благочестие:  Очерки Иконного Дела В Императорской России [Icon and Piety: Essays on Icon Art in Imperial Russia], Тарасов, Москва, 1995 (Russian)

• 📚 Искусство древней Вологды (The Art of Ancient Vologda),  Издательство «Аврора», Ленинград, 1978 (Russian)

• 📚 Ikony w Polsce od średniowiecza do współczesności [Icons in Poland from the Middle Ages to the Present], Janocha, Arkady, 2008 (Polish)

• 📚 Sinai: Treasures of the Monastery of St Catherine, Konstantinos Manafis, Konstantinos A. Manaphes; 2005

• 📚 Icons, Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov, 2019

• 📚 Kastoria (Byzantine Art in Greece), Nano Chatzidakis, 1999

• 📚 Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557), Helen C. Evans

• 📚 Icons (Temporis), Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov

Additional Referance Images of Icons

To Be Categorized

• 📚 Russian Icons Today, S. Timchenko, 1994

• 📚 Icon gallery - Ohrid, M. Georgievski, 1999

• 📚 Les Mystères du Christ: Les Icônes de la liturgie, Eon Sendler, [French]

• 📚 Icônes byzantines de la mère de Dieu , Eon Sendler, [French], 1992

• 📚 L'icona, immagine dell'invisibile. Elementi di teologia, estetica e tecnica, Eon Sendler, [French]

• 📚 Approaching the Holy Mountain: Art and Litergy at St. Cathrine's Monestary in the Sinai, Gerstel and Nelson, Brepols, Belgium, 2010

• 📚 Old Russian Murals & Mosaics: From the 11th to the 16th Century, Viktor Nikitich Lazarev, 1966

• 📚 Андрей Рублев (и его школа) [Andrey Rublev (and his school)],  Viktor Nikitich Lazarev, Moscow, 1966

• 📚 Новгородская иконопись [Novograd Icon-Painting],  Viktor Nikitich Lazarev, Moscow, 1969

• 📚 Новгородa Искусство [Russian (Novograd) Art], Viktor Nikitich Lazarev, Moscow, 1947

• 📚 Frescoes of Ohrid-map (in Macedonian), Lenche Mojsoska