This book does not have its own kind. Here, for the first time, the most important works on the theology of the image are combined. Moreover, the published texts are drawn mainly from the rarest, or even completely inaccessible sources. The collection presents studies of the largest Orthodox art historians: N.V. Pokrovsky, D.A. Rovinsky, N.P. Kondakova, F.I. Buslaeva, Yu. A. Olsufiev and others.