Greece is often celebrated for its sun-drenched islands and ancient ruins, but tucked between its olive groves and mountain ...

If you've ever been in an Orthodox church, you've undoubtedly been greeted with walls covered with icons. They may look like simple drawings, but each one has a purpose and a specialized artist, an ...

LACKAWANNA, N.Y. — The religious scenes playing out on the interior walls of St. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church could have been painted centuries ago: Saints with gilded halos, winged angels hugging ...

HENRY MAGUIRE AND EUNICE DAUTERMAN MAGUIRE Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 223 pp.; 8 color ills., 150 b/w. $49.50 For decades, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The permanent collection of Purdue University Galleries is now home to one of the largest private Orthodox Christian icon collections in the country, and an exhibition of these ...

Experts in Turkey have been restoring 452 pieces of historical Byzantine church icons, which date back to 17th century. Turkey’s Culture Ministry’s restoration laboratory in Istanbul work on objects, ...

Europe’s cathedrals, churches, monasteries, and baptisteries cover the countryside like Veronica’s veil. They comprise the continent’s landmarks and focal attractions and, for centuries, have been ...

Like the surveillance state, the Christ Pantocrator icon asserts an omnipresent authority. But it also asserts divine mercy ...

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus ...

POCATELLO — Ardently involved with the Gate City’s Greek Orthodox Church, Danny Thiros, the late husband of Idaho State University Athletic Director Pauline Thiros, longed for the historic church ...