Krausmüller, Dirk14.07.20192019-07-1614.07.20192019-07-1620160307-01311749-625Xhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1017/byz.2016.9https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12514/1331This brief article makes the case that Patriarch Methodios developed a distinctive icon theology. He argued that the saints had infused the colours of their faces with their holy essence and that these colours when separated from the bodies and transferred to images could thus lead to the moral improvement of the onlookers.en10.1017/byz.2016.9info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessPatriarch MethodiosIconsIcon theologySecond IconoclasmArticle402298306N/AQ1WOS:0003853646000072-s2.0-84988672445