WASHINGTON (RNS) 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 ...

Icons' roots are in Byzantine culture and history, and Eastern Orthodox icons often portray Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and numerous saints and martyrs. The majority are painted in egg tempera on ...

Traditional Orthodox artist Artistidis Kovaci is installing iconography at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 2940 CR 214, St. Augustine. He has painted traditional Byzantine icons of the ...

The latest round of iconography is being installed at St. Matthew Orthodox Church in Green Bay. Officials say the tradition combines history, art and religion.

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.

sfgreek22_003_db.jpg Bob Andrews, mosaic iconographer, high on a scaffold, scrapes and cleans off his newly installed mosaic icons at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church on Brotherhood Way.

DALLAS — With every layer of glue and paint and varnish, Vladimir Grigorenko is building a bridge to God. The bridge of faith has already carried him from the faith-challenged post-Soviet Ukr… ...

LACKAWANNA, N.Y. – A Serbian Orthodox church in upstate New York is among the latest sanctuaries to be gilded with the work of one of the most well-known American painters of iconography. The ...

Orthodox iconography: "The Byzantine Orthodox iconography is not just an 'art,' it’s a sacred art," Theodoros Papadopoulos, Greek icon expert, explains.

The latest round of iconography is being installed at St. Matthew Orthodox Church in Green Bay. Officials say the tradition combines history, art and religion.

“There is nothing wrong with a non-Orthodox person wanting to learn iconography for their own spiritual discipline,” said Aristidis Garinis, an iconographer and a priest serving at the Greek Orthodox ...