For modern skeptics, the 6th-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in bees wax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...

More info: In conjunction with the exhibit are five events, the last of which is a talk on iconography from Mary Flerchinger, a Peola, Washington, icon writer. Flerchinger’s talk is from 2-4 p.m. on ...

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 ...

Once in a while, we are caught short by something so beautiful we lack words for it. That’s what happened to me when I first saw the work of Alexandr Tsypkov, an icon writer who beautifies abandoned ...

For modern skeptics, the sixth-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...