Did the Early Christians Have Icons?

The 4th-century historian Eusebius: “we have learned also that the likenesses of his apostles Paul and Peter, and of Christ himself, are preserved in paintings”

John Calvin, who doesn’t have as much knowledge of archeology as we do today, in his Institutes of the Christian Religion wrote:

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