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 ...

Traditional Orthodox artist Artistidis Kovaci is installing iconography at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 2940 CR 214, St. Augustine. He has painted traditional Byzantine icons of the Pantocrator ...

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 ...

Along the flat highway that approaches the mountains of Meteora, Greece, on the second floor of offices, is a family-­owned workshop of Byzantine icons. Father Pefkis, the iconographer, serves locally ...

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 ...

“The Byzantine Orthodox iconography is not just an ‘art,’ it’s a sacred art,” said iconographer Theodoros Papadopoulos. “It is not ‘painting,’ it’s theology. It is not ‘artistic expression,’ it is ...