The tradition of icon painting began to develop simultaneously with the development of Christianity. In the modern era, avant ...

Icons' roots are in Byzantine culture and history, and Eastern Orthodox icons often portray Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and numerous saints and martyrs. The majority are painted in egg tempera on ...

Dhimitris Gkinos, an assistant to Iconographer Leoidas Diamantopoulos, dips his brush in paint Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, while working with group from Athens to paint several Greek Orthodox icons ...

In many respects, the Easter celebrations of Chicago’s 350,000 Eastern Orthodox Christians ... a painted and framed icon of Christ’s descent into Hades shows Jesus, in golden robes, standing ...

The Rev. Dobrivoje Milunovic, the presiding priest of Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in the O’Hare neighborhood, was one of the first priests to visit to venerate the icon.

Thousands of dollars worth of religious artwork, called icons ... given to Jesus at birth, according to the Bible. Yangson is a deacon at the Holy Theotokos of Iveron Russian Orthodox Church ...

Two Orthodox icons hang either side of the entrance. On the side of the camouflage-patterned tent there is a large, Byzantine-style image of Jesus combined with pictures of Russian soldiers and th ...

The installation of the icons, which are a sacred tradition ... or God-bearer, in the Orthodox Church, holding the young Jesus while flanked by two angels. The apse, a large semicircular recess ...