Icon - written or painted ?

When we consider the content of the icon, its theological message, the meaning hidden in the symbolism of gestures and colors, we see an analogy to the writings of the Book, which the author writes so that someone else can read it and accept it. However, when we look at the process of its creation, it is difficult not to see in it the classic workshop of a painter. Therefore, an iconographer is a painter immersed in faith.