The church of Panagia Kera near Agios Nikolaos on Crete contains the finest-preserved Byzantine frescoes on the Greek island ...

Philip Jenkins teaches at Baylor University. He is author of A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World. When the Antonine Plague hit in 165, says historian Colin ...

The artist would develop a distinctly Protestant imagery that replaced sacredness with utility, functioning essentially as ...

Television: The author and playwright, who suffered life-changing injuries after a fall in 2022, revisits his life and career ...

In July this year, an act of iconoclasm rocked St Mary’s cathedral in Linz, Austria. The Crowning, a newly installed sculpture of the Virgin Mary by artist Esther Strauss, depicting Mary in the act of ...

During the rule of the Palas, Buddhism experienced changes including the introduction of Tantricism. Different schools of ...

It has the founding qualities of the so called acheiropoeta. - Portaïtissa, Our Lady of the Gate. It is located at the monastery of Iviron. Legend tells that the icon escaped iconoclasm during the ...

The oldest Armenian Church in Romania, which still stands today, was built in 1350 and is located in the city of Botoșani.

We noted recently the threat to Texas’s Christian culture from legal Asian Hindu immigrants. That is not the only danger it ...

Mary's, she evokes Ingrid Bergman's unique blend of classical rectitude and iconoclasm in such a way that it almost feels like you are watching a ghost.

Although perhaps intended to protest the destruction of antiquities during China’s Cultural Revolution, Ai’s act of ...