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 ...

Byzantine art decorates churches in Greece, Serbia, and other Eastern Orthodox countries that comprised the Eastern Roman Empire and, later, the Ottoman-Turkish Empire.

Most people who try to create freethinking art end up leaving the Orthodox community, seeking spaces outside—the sort of struggle epitomized by Chaim Potok’s 1972 novel, My Name Is Asher Lev.

Art historians had long suspected that the name — Greek for "full moon" — could have originated as a nickname for some member of the so-called Macedonian School of painting, based in Thessaloniki.

The Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Art Exhibit features beautiful paintings, jewelry, pottery, and more. Artists Sheila Hemenway Yurchak and Helena Docherty are here with more on what you can find ...

Downtown Youngstown will be hosting multiple events throughout the weekend of July 11 to July 13, from YSU to Wick Park.

Santiago Calatrava’s St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which replaces a building destroyed in the attacks of 9/11, is true to the form but not the spirit of a Byzantine domed church.

Rev. Fr. Nicholas Jonas told the Chicago Tribune he was in his office at Chicago’s Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church early Sunday morning when a caretaker told him about the painting.

Although most Christians in the world celebrated Easter last Sunday, more than 200 million Eastern Orthodox worldwide will celebrate Easter a week later, on April 28. For Greek Orthodox and ...