For modern skeptics, the 6th-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in bees wax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...

A couple in Kyiv has raised $300,000 for a volunteer hospital by painting religious icons on empty ammunition boxes discarded during fighting in eastern Ukraine. 1 Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Klymenko ...

Along the flat highway that approaches the mountains of Meteora, Greece, on the second floor of offices, is a family-­owned workshop of Byzantine icons. Father Pefkis, the iconographer, serves locally ...

Continuing an artistic tradition begun in the 3rd Century, Kim Fritzges paints early Byzantine icons in Studio 311 at the ...

KYIV (Reuters) - Visiting a military base in 2014, Ukrainian artist and icon painter Oleksandr Klymenko was struck by how much the bottom and cover of a wooden ammunition box could resemble a ...

More info: In conjunction with the exhibit are five events, the last of which is a talk on iconography from Mary Flerchinger, a Peola, Washington, icon writer. Flerchinger’s talk is from 2-4 p.m. on ...

When a religious icon with a panel depicting Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was unveiled in a Tbilisi cathedral, many Georgians took offense. One of them, Nata Peradze, threw blue paint on the painting ...

For modern skeptics, the sixth-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...