The Holy Trinity is not depicted

The Holy Trinity is not depicted. Whoever has seen the Son, who is the exact image of the Father, has also seen the unportrayable Father. And the Holy Spirit is the image of the Son, according to Saint Basil the Great. Therefore, in the icon of the Incarnate Word, the other two Persons are also venerated.

Now, regarding the conventional icon of the Holy Trinity with the Father as an old man and the Holy Spirit as a dove, it is problematic because it projects the Filioque , since in the triangular relationship of the Persons the Holy Spirit appears to proceed from both the Father and the Son. At the same time, the depiction of the Father as older than the Son is intended, on the one hand, to demonstrate the Father as the cause of the Son and to silence Sabellius by giving them distinct hypostases, but in essence it attributes temporal priority to the Father. That is, it is the teaching of Arius in image form. These icons are very bold and simplistic, and for this reason they give rise to error, even if they may not have had bad intentions from the beginning.

As for God the Father as an old man and the Spirit as a dove, the Father is not recognized in this form because, on the…