In Orthodox Christian iconography, a peculiar icon of Saint Christopher can be seen, depicting him with a dog's head.

And the only “icon” was an actual icon, in a review of an exhibition of 14th-century Tuscan art. “The show opens with a Byzantine icon,” we wrote, “the kind of hyper-stylised Greek ...

The faith we see proclaimed in our painting was strong enough to ensure that, under Muslim rule, the traditions of Orthodox Christianity, with the veneration of icons as its defining feature ...