Among the many images that have shaped the sacred imagination of the Orthodox world, none appears more deceptively familiar ...

In the rich tapestry of Indian art, the portrayal of the Virgin and Child stands out as a fascinating intersection of cultural and religious influences. This article explores how Christian iconography ...

For Lara Neri, painting icons is a kind of prayer. “It’s probably the most intense prayer that I do,” said Neri, a Byzantine Catholic from Dallas, referring to the dozens of hours she spent in a class ...

Investigators using a robotic arm equipped with a remote-controlled camera have discovered what is being called the earliest evidence of Christian iconography in Jerusalem. The newly discovered ...

Down a Bethlehem alleyway, sunlight illuminates a golden icon of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, signalling the revival of an ancient art being practiced in the workshop inside. The building near the ...

The body has been an important symbolic metaphor in various periods. It was not just an actual human body that was employed in individual portrayals, but also a corporeality which was incorporated in ...

Romania's Orthodox Church said on April 29 that posters depicting nurses and doctors dealing with the coronavirus outbreak as saints were an insult to Christian iconography. The campaign is “marked by ...

Iconographers work in both silence and in prayer, with their art a far cry from the cheap mass-produced icons sold in souvenir shops to tourists and pilgrims. Down a Bethlehem alleyway, sunlight ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a unique fifth-century chalice near Hadrian's Wall covered in Britain's earliest example of Christian graffiti on an object. The lead vessel, the only known example of ...

Early on the morning of Saturday 14 April, shortly after the call to prayer, residents of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum heard mortar and artillery fire as intense fighting broke out between the ...