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 ...

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Down a Bethlehem alleyway, sunlight illuminates a golden icon of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, signalling the revival of an ancient art being practised in the workshop inside. Foreign students of the ...

Introduction : iconography, texts, and audiences / Brendan Cassidy -- Unwriting iconology / Michael Ann Holly -- The politics of iconology / Keith Moxey -- Iconography as a humanistic discipline ...

BETHLEHEM (AFP) — Down a Bethlehem alleyway, sunlight illuminates a golden icon of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, signaling the revival of an ancient art being practiced in the workshop inside. The ...

It deserves to be read by any person interested in the living ­tradition and possibilities of Christian art. Sailing Back to Byzantium: the Art of Michael Galovic Sailing Back to Byzantium is first ...

BETHLEHEM - In a small old building made of Jerusalem stone, down an alleyway in the Old City of Bethlehem, a dozen local artists sit labouring over canvases, tracing delicate, winding lines that will ...