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St. Katherine's Greek Orthodox Church in Chandler is finishing up new iconography. The iconographer is from Greece, and he ...
The tradition of icon painting began to develop simultaneously with the development of Christianity. In the modern era, avant ...
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 ...
and Eastern Orthodox icons often portray Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and numerous saints and martyrs. The majority are painted in egg tempera on wood panel, and some are enclosed by a metal casing ...
Icons — paintings that represent saints, Jesus, the Virgin Mary and biblical events — are a staple of Greek Orthodox churches, said Father Seraphim Ramos, the second priest of St. John the ...
Front and center is Rochester's Saints Anargyroi Greek Orthodox Church, which proudly displays painted religious icons throughout its soft blue sanctuary walls. Those 33 images run wall to wall ...
Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church on Grand Avenue. From 1959 to 1981, Ververis painted eight icons, two large angels and a portrait of Virgin Mary above and behind the altar. Before his ...
A major official of the Eastern Orthodox faith pronounced the so-called weeping Madonna icon at a Northwest Side ... the 75-year-old ranking prelate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North ...
(Tania Barricklo/Daily Freeman) St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Kingston, N.Y. Eight icons were commissioned to be painted by Miltiadis Afentoulis for St. George Greek Orthodox Church in ...
POCATELLO — Ardently involved with the Gate City’s Greek Orthodox Church, Danny Thiros, the late husband of Idaho State University Athletic Director Pauline Thiros, longed for the historic ...
Earlier, the iconography crew worked on projects at two Greek Orthodox churches in the Denver area. Paleoxaris, whose father was a priest, said he became an icon painter after realizing he had an ...
Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church on Grand Avenue. From 1959 to 1981, Ververis painted eight icons, two large angels and a portrait of Virgin Mary above and behind the altar. Before his ...