# Ethiopian Icon × Russian Icon — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=ethiopian-icon+russian-icon
# Ethiopian Icon carries the structure. Russian Icon appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Ethiopian Icon (Style, 14th century–) and its accent from Russian Icon (Style, 10th–17th century / continuing). Structural cues: Large almond-shaped eyes; Bold outlines; Vivid flat color; Folding triptychs. Accent cues, used sparingly: The timelessness of gold ground; Reverse perspective; Stylized bodies; The image as object of prayer. Composition: Line figures up frontally and divide the ground into flat color fields. Type and lettering: Keep inscriptions inside the frame and treat letters as part of the image. Let one material quality come from the second style: Gesso built on panel, egg tempera and gold leaf in layers. Mood: Intimacy, Exhilaration, Trust, Calm, Luxury. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Where the two fight
# - Both belong to Icon Painting, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Ethiopian Icon: Extracting the large eyes as a style breaks the balance of heavy outline and flat color, and the result becomes cartoon caricature.
# - Russian Icon: Adding naturalistic perspective and shading turns the window for prayer into a scene to look at, and reverse perspective stops working.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/ethiopian-icon/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/russian-icon/design.md