There is a certain kind of stillness that settles over a room when a student is focused … not just on the stroke of a brush, ...

One Loveland artist has spent the last decade writing biblical figures into art through the classic practice of iconography. Barbara Heller, who has lived in Loveland since the early ’80s, now works ...

Anna Schalk finds herself weeping each time she enters an Orthodox church and gazes at the flat, colorful icons of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. The impressionistic painter had long been drawn to ...

In the art world, we are used to seeing the same representations of biblical figures. For that reason, we often believe that representations of the Holy Trinity follow internationally and ...

WATER MILL, N.Y. -- The look on Janine Manheim's face when a visitor stops into her garret tells much about the ancient art of iconography before she utters a word. She is bent over a 4 1/2-foot-long ...

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 ...

Jane Tan Creti recently gave area residents an up-close view of ages old art form. Tan Creti is an iconographer and her works are on display this month at Gallery 92 West in downtown Fremont. The ...

"Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon," 1347. Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of Leopold Blumka, 1978.26. Public domain. Studies in Iconography: Themes and ...

Princeton University has taken steps to carry out recommendations of the Trustee committee on Woodrow Wilson's legacy that are intended to bring greater diversity to the naming of campus buildings and ...

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 ...