Egg tempera on wood, housed in the finely hand-chased and engraved silver riza or oklad and in the wood and glass icon case ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The permanent collection of Purdue University Galleries is now home to one of the largest private Orthodox Christian icon collections in the country, and an exhibition of these ...

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus ...

If you've ever been in an Orthodox church, you've undoubtedly been greeted with walls covered with icons. They may look like simple drawings, but each one has a purpose and a specialized artist, an ...

Jane Clark is the Senior Research Curator at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania's city of Hobart. She talks to SBS Greek about Mona's new exhibition 'Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian ...