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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Titus Kaphar’s ability to prompt reflection on long-standing systemic oppressions, particularly through his dismantling and reconfiguration of classical structures in Western art, has never felt more ...

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 ...

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, ...

Since ancient times, dragons existed in different cultures as indomitable creatures or signs of good luck. But when these fascinating beings took center stage in Christian myths and iconography, ...