Verbal portraits of saints in fiction, hagiography and guidelines for icon painters

Portraits of saints are both icons and frescoes, and art and hagiography literature. But the writer, hagiography and icon painter set a different goal. In describing the saint in fiction author expresses his emotions, affects the aesthetic sense of the reader through artistic means. In hagiography literature image of the saint created by his biography, the author, except for the narration, sets the didactic purpose, in so doing, it also helps many epithets. Compiled guide for icon painters set itself above all practical purpose - to create an icon of the saint, but it is important to provide personalized features sacred and portray it in accordance with his rank of holiness.