When Russians settled the far outpost of North America now known as Alaska, they shared their religion with the native residents. And many of the Eskimos, Aleuts and others living there in the 18th ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. According to a recipe compiled by a Greek monk in the 1700s, snail slime is a superb binding agent when mixing gold paint to make icons.

Orthodox Christians revere Russian icons as sacred devotional pieces. But to others around the world, they are magnificent treasures, collected and cherished for their beauty, artistry and history.

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 ...

The first thing one notices at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in the Park Merced neighborhood in San Francisco is the soaring, 100-foot ceiling, the soft, otherworldly blue-tinged light from ...

Russia’s most famous icon, and one of Russian art’s greatest achievements, the 15th-century icon Trinity by the legendary painter Andrei Rublev has resided at the State Tretyakov Gallery since the ...

An exhibition of icons of the 19th century opened at the Art Museum of the University of Tartu on January 29, ERR reports. The exhibition, titled “The Human and Divine World of Icons” includes icons ...

Stepping inside St. Luke Orthodox Church already was an experience all its own, evoking holy mysteries, but it just got better with the addition of a 4 x 5-foot icon of the Theotokos, or Mother of God ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, “writing” religious icons. In the Orthodox Christian tradition, icons are said to be written, not painted. The Orthodox consider making icons more a form of prayer than art ...

Religious icon painting is thriving in Serbia, as the Orthodox Church’s influence continues to increase in the wake of the collapse of communism. The art of iconography has seen a new revival in ...

Jane Clark is the Senior Research Curator at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania's city of Hobart. She talks to SBS Greek about Mona's new exhibition 'Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Art – Sasha Grishin Eikon: Icons of the Orthodox Christian World, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 40 Lydiard St, Ballarat Closes January 26, ...