love this: iconography

At the moment, i am working with the aesthetic rules of byzantine art and religious iconography for our launch window of Dries Van Noten and Givenchy AW09..
below are some examples of what im looking at:

first, my favourite icon so far..

Secondly, the wierdest and most pagan feeling angel in byzantine art i have found...

and finally, the first image of an icon being made ever..