“Iconography is a special way to approach God and a special way to create instruments for others to approach God,” he said. In the class at St. Sophia, students often kept their voices low during ...

Non-orthodox churches often ask Cole to teach iconography classes during Lent. "During Lent, we're focused on the sacrifice Christ made for us," she said. "We take this time of the year to take a good ...

Byzantine painting has blossomed in a variety of ways within many historical epochs in different parts of the world, and has most recently arrived in Napa Valley. The valley’s first Iconography class ...

TORONTO — It looks like any other art class — 10 students, all adults, sit around a large table, hunched over their work. But what is going in the basement of this Ukrainian cultural centre is more ...

In ARTHIST 158S: “From Iconography to Instagram,” students learn how art and history have progressed together, as well as how to analyze and interpret an image. Taught by Michael Metzger, a Ph.D.

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 ...

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 ...

Wesley Theological Seminary, a United Methodist-affiliated school a mile and a half away, also held an iconography class taught by Philip Davydov, another Russian iconographer. Photo courtesy of ...