Representative image, which was initially applied to religious objects in the form of painting or sculpture, but later the concept included artists as an example of a movement, or ideograms and buttons with a drawing representing their function. The word has its origin in the Byzantine Greek 949; 953; 954; 969; 957; ( eikon "like image" ) .
It means image, effigy, picture. It can also mean signal. sign. Representative, distinguished, relevant, important.