Veronica Royal’s most challenging commission was a five-foot-high icon of the Baptism of Christ, which hangs in St. Michael’s Church in Annandale, Va. An octagonal building dedicated in 1960, St.

HENDERSONVILLE — Renowned iconographer Suzanne Schleck returns to Western North Carolina to celebrate 20 years of her transformative iconography retreat at Kanuga. From Feb. 1-7, “The Gospel in Line ...

This summer, a Polish art critic and historian laid down a challenge to a group of contemporary icon painters from Ukraine and Poland: depict "God's justice." Katarzyna Jakubowska-Krawczyk, head of ...

Within the field of Russian religious art, Russian icons hold a singular place within the country’s art historical traditions. First emerging in the 11th century, despite their significance they have ...

Olga Volchkova paints traditional Russian religious icons with a twist. Eugene resident Olga Volchkova grew up in Russia, and attended the first school of traditional icon painting when it opened ...

People think that Christian icon painting is the preserve of male painters and that only Orthodox Christians can create a good icon. But in Hong Kong Catholic diocese, a female icon painter, Cindy Ng ...

On Saturday, Aug. 23, from 2 to 3 p.m., the Grace Hudson Museum presents a talk by Father Damian, Abbot of the Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Redwood Valley. Father Damian will speak about the ...

Visiting exhibition of 54 Russian icons and masterpieces opened at the Vatican Tuesday. Nikolay Yaroshenko, Life Is Everywhere 1888 (l); Dionysius, The Crucifixion ...

We have no Circus Maximus today, no chariot races. But we do have the art auction, which—far from being the staid and reverent affair of popular imagination—furnishes us with one of the few ...

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, ...