“The Byzantine Orthodox iconography is not just an ‘art,’ it’s a sacred art,” said iconographer Theodoros Papadopoulos. “It is not ‘painting,’ it’s theology. It is not ‘artistic expression,’ it is ...

WATER MILL, N.Y. -- The look on Janine Manheim's face when a visitor stops into her garret tells much about the ancient art of iconography before she utters a word. She is bent over a 4 1/2-foot-long ...

Down a Bethlehem alleyway, sunlight illuminates a golden icon of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, signalling the revival of an ancient art being practised in the workshop inside. Foreign students of the ...

One Loveland artist has spent the last decade writing biblical figures into art through the classic practice of iconography. Barbara Heller, who has lived in Loveland since the early ’80s, now works ...

"Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon," 1347. Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of Leopold Blumka, 1978.26. Public domain. Studies in Iconography: Themes and ...

Princeton University has taken steps to carry out recommendations of the Trustee committee on Woodrow Wilson's legacy that are intended to bring greater diversity to the naming of campus buildings and ...

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Anna Schalk finds herself weeping each time she enters an Orthodox church and gazes at the flat, colorful icons of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. The impressionistic painter had long been drawn to ...

For Lara Neri, painting icons is a kind of prayer. “It’s probably the most intense prayer that I do,” said Neri, a Byzantine Catholic from Dallas, referring to the dozens of hours she spent in a class ...