The Russian icon is one of the greatest manifestation of the World Art, and its rediscovery is undeniably one of the most sensational revelations in the artistic field of our century.

This form of art has preserved all of its interior energy, and represents something unique in the painting history.

Even if they had to choose within a limited range of subjects, the ancient iconographers have left us masterpieces filled with a strong and deep significance. Talking in terms of observations, there's a misunderstanding over the icons basics, because they are "books representing persons and events, not written with the letters".

These icons represent the memory of the great enterprises of God, they don't assume a realistic significance but a simbolic one, they tell us about the supreme truths of the Christian faith and secure these events in their overtime sense and significance.

All the ancient icons were considered thaumaturgical because painted during the prayers according to the Church rules obeying to the inner tradition, even if the extraordinary talent and the individualism of the artist is reflected in his opera. An image whose goal is to be revered cannot be conceived in the same way a painting is done to provide an estethic pleasure. The icons reveal a religious value, reflect the suffers and the gestures of the Russian people during specific phenomenons and events revealing the interior world, the purity and the nobility of the soul.