Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox World / Mona/Jesse HunnifordImage Courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Most have never been on public display in ...

A new department dedicated to Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox Christian art is expected to open at ... including Byzantine ...

have helped to protect and preserve this work of art. But the Kremlin recently ordered that the icon be transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. The head of the Church, Patriarch Kirill ...

When the liturgy does not have the courage to confront ugly yet natural human impulses, art can provide a cultural space for ...

Icon' is derived from the Greek word for image (eikon) and took on a special religious significance in Orthodox art. The tradition of painting the same, or similar, images of saints and holy ...