Explore the secrets of ancient images and learn about the history, meaning and technical process of creating Byzantine icons at St. Athanasius Orthodox Church’s Liturgical Arts Festival. The festival ...
Icons have been a part of the Russian Orthodox faith for thousands of years as a physical expression of worship. They’ve been displayed at churches, carried into battle and each iron has been publicly ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio - A late Byzantine icon, made around 1450 with gleaming touches of gold leaf, headlines the latest round of acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, which roam the globe and nearly ...
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, ...
In 1997, an exhibition entitled 'Treasures of Mount Athos' was organized at the Byzantine Culture Museum in Thessaloniki. Among these treasures were post-Byzantine icons that required thinning of ...
This icon commemorates the Triumph of Orthodoxy, a pivotal moment in Byzantine history. It depicts the Empress Theodora, dressed in red, who restored the use of images in religious worship in AD 843.
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