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Dhimitris Gkinos, an assistant to Iconographer Leoidas Diamantopoulos, dips his brush in paint Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, while working with group from Athens to paint several Greek Orthodox icons ...
Q My wife purchased this icon from a Greek Orthodox Church in Russia about 60 years ago. It is a little more than 17 inches tall and almost 11 inches wide.
“When these things happen, I feel like a little kid when first going into a candy factory, and you’re just in awe,” said Jonas, the presiding priest at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church ...
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Artist Miltiadis Afentoulis of Nyack is painting eight Byzantine-style icons depicting the life events of Jesus on the walls of the sanctuary of St. George’s Greek Orthodox C… ...
In ancient traditions, he said, the "goal was to help people encounter Jesus. If an Egyptian visited an Orthodox church in Norway … he would still recognize an icon of Jesus Christ.
Along with images of Jesus Christ and his mother, the 12 apostles and several prophets, one of the many new icons at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Wilkes-Barre depicts the three young men from ...
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 Ch… ...