📚 Icons

The window theology: Byzantine panels, the iconoclast quarrel, and the writing conventions kept to this day.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject icons in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Russian works of art =	Sotheby & Co. (London, England)	1974	9
	The meaning of icons	Léonide Ouspensky	1952	8
	Ikonen	Konrad Onasch	1961	8
	The icon	Kurt Weitzmann	1978	8
	Welt der Ikonen	Heinz Skrobucha	1957	7
	Icons	Tamara Talbot Rice	1958	7
	Hermēneia tēs zōgraphikēs	Dionysios of Fourna	1974	7
	Icons of Patmos	Μανόλης Χατζηδάκης	1977	7
	Russian icons	David Talbot Rice	1947	6
	Volynsʹka ikona	Volynsʹkyĭ krai︠e︡znavchyĭ muzeĭ	2009	6
	Holy icons in the religious art of the Eastern Church	Doris Wild	1961	5
	Icons	Heinz Skrobucha	1963	5
	Behold the Beauty of the Lord	Henri J. M. Nouwen	1987	5
	Icons	Richard Temple	1990	5
	Russian icons	Philipp Schweinfurth	1953	4
	Ikonen	Wilhelmus Petrus Theunissen	1968	4
	Novgorodskai͡a︡ ikonopisʹ	Lazarev, Viktor Nikitich	1969	4
	Ikon	Hetty J. Roozemond-Van Ginhoven	1980	4
	The technique of icon painting	Guillem Ramos-Poqui	1990	4
	Mystical Language of Icons	Solrunn Nes	2000	4
	Icon and Devotion	Oleg Tarasov	2002	4
	Icon Debate	Aleksandra Sulikowska	2016	4
	Les saintes icones	Ildefonse Dirks	1932	3
	Ikonen	Doris Wild	1946	3
	Sinn der Ikonen	Léonide Ouspensky	1952	3
	Icons and their history	David Talbot Rice	1962	3
	Searching for icons in Russia	Владимир Алексеевич Солоухин	1971	3
	Ikonen einer Berliner Privatsammlung	Thea Joksch	1978	3
	Icons	Kurt Weitzmann	1980	3
	The art of the icon	Paul Evdokimov	1989	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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