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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...