Answer
A religious artwork of Christ , the Virgin Mary or a Saint that was used to honor the figure was called Icon.
Step-by-step explanation
Icon refers to an image with a religious content, meaning and usefulness. The style used in an art does not make a painting an icon but the subject, meaning and application. Not all representations of a religious subject is an Icon. Icons in modern days are used as symbols to give people a kind of symbolic image of holy persons in heaven.