How icons are made. Iconographer Elias Katsaros doesn't actually paint the icons directly onto the wall. It's more like wallpaper, the Rev. Peter Pier of St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox ...

This exaltation of Earth’s endangered inhabitants pairs well with the form of traditional icons, which emerged with the rise of Orthodox Christianity in the first century CE.

The leader of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine bestowed blessings upon 12 icons painted on body armor plates that saved the lives of Ukrainian soldiers as they battled invading Russian forces.

Its remit covers Byzantine and Eastern art from the third century AD to 1923. ... a 16th-century Russian icon that was in the private collection of the Bavarian princely Oettingen-Wallerstein ...

His other field changer is Mother of the Lamb, a book about the Byzantine icon known as the Virgin of the Passion. Art historians often give limp descriptions of icons as projections of imperial power ...

The fate of El Greco's Saint Sebastian is in limbo as Romania escalates its legal battle to reclaim the masterpiece, alleging ...

Pawlowska began creating works inspired by traditional Orthodox icons 26 years ago, when her mother died on a visit to Sweden. She had moved to Scandinavia after meeting her husband in Moscow in 1993.

Explore the art of iconic Orthodox church artifacts at the New Orleans Greek Festival, which will also feature food, traditional dance and a celebration of cultural history.

And the only “icon” was an actual icon, in a review of an exhibition of 14th-century Tuscan art. “The show opens with a Byzantine icon,” we wrote, “the kind of hyper-stylised Greek ...