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ICONOGRAPHY

For anyone interested, the techniques of an iconographer are explained here.

In the same website you can read the story of iconographer Tatiana Vartanova, a Russian who defected and then returned to Russia, finally defecting to Canada. She has restored the icons at the Moscow Patriarchal Ephiphany Cathedral, said to be the "holiest shrine of the Russian Orthodox religion"--the "East bloc's version of the Vatican".