(WBIR-West Knoxville) It is religious art full of symbolism created to bring people closer to God. The practice of making icons dates back more than one thousand years and continues today here is ...

I wonder how many of you recognize this character? With his half-lidded eyes and that signature nonchalant gaze, the Pink ...

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 ...

The greatest artists Russia ever produced were the profoundly religious painters of icons of 15th Century Novgorod and Moscow. Their serene holy families and saints, compacted of austere line and pure ...

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 ...

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 ...

To understand the history of Venice, you need to know that there were three ways in which saints and other holy figures were presented in the churches. There were relics, bodily remains or objects ...

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, ...