(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 ...

Veronica Royal’s most challenging commission was a five-foot-high icon of the Baptism of Christ, which hangs in St. Michael’s Church in Annandale, Va. An octagonal building dedicated in 1960, St.

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 ...

Photoshop CS6 Extended tutorial showing how to recreate a religious icon or painting of a serene person or figure surrounded ...

Within the field of Russian religious art, Russian icons hold a singular place within the country’s art historical traditions. First emerging in the 11th century, despite their significance they have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week, Orthodox Christians mark the final days of Great Lent, a time of repentance, fasting, and prayer in preparation for Orthodox Easter, or Pascha, on May 5. Iconographer Seraphim O’Keefe talks ...