Last update at
may 2010

The origin of the word Icone is very ancient, comes from Greec, and means a sacred image. The first icons were painted in IV a.C. century. The Bible tell us about the first icon in human history: God took some clay (Adama) and made the image of a man.

The first image created by God was Adam. He was the first icon of God, a humain being made at the same shape an image of God. The first thing Adam did was to give name to the animals. All the icons are named. The first icons were named in Greec. 

Prata studied Icons at the Atelier d´Iconographie Saint Luc of Paris, with Hélène Iankoff. He also went to Mount Athos, in Greece, in that research.

See also: ícones