Icons' roots are in Byzantine culture and history, and Eastern Orthodox icons often portray Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and numerous saints and martyrs. The majority are painted in egg tempera on ...

View ORTHODOX ICON OF CHRIST PANTOCRATOR (19th Century) By Russian School, 19th Century; oil painted on wood in a gilt oklad with cloisonne enamel; 8 3/4 x 7 in., (22.3 x 17.7 cm.) 12 3/4 x 11 in., ...

For believers, this Christ Pantocrator ("ruler of all") icon is the most famous image of Jesus in the world, because the remote Sinai Peninsula location of St. Catherine's Monastery allowed it to ...

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 ...

Nowhere is this strangeness more apparent than in the majestic sixth-century Christ Pantocrator of Sinai, an icon whose asymmetry has been the subject of endless commentary. Using the same split ...

View A RUSSIAN ORTHODOX ICON OF CHRIST PANTOCRATOR IN SILVER OKLAD, 19TH CEN (Circa 1875) By Helios; Wood and glass; 11 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 2 3/8 in., (29 x 26 x 6 cm.); . Access more artwork lots and ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Most Christians observe Christmas on December 25th. But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Christ's birth on January 7th. For parishioners at the Serbian Orthodox Church in Butte it ...

Christ the Pantocrator is a foremost depiction of Our Lord in iconography. In fact, both Orthodox Churches and Eastern-rite Catholic Churches always feature an icon of Christ the Pantocrator.

Their highlight is the giant depiction of “Christ Pantocrator” (literally “ruler of all”) in the apse, or half-dome, at the back of the cathedral. It is a typical Orthodox Christian icon ...

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus Ch… ...