Colors are important and symbolic in icons. Russian Orthodox for example use bright ... Both colors are used in the garments of Mary and Jesus at the front of the nave (where the congregation ...

The collection, part of a gift to the university made last fall by Katherine "Betsy" Scheuring, includes 132 Russian and ... Galleries. Icons' roots are in Byzantine culture and history, and Eastern ...

Jesus Christ, or saints in “real” proportions – Orthodox icons do not depict, they symbolize. Here’s your short guide on how to read and understand Russian icons. There are three forms of ...

As the car passed beneath the tower’s giant icon of Jesus it slowed and Shoigu ... gesture was emblematic of the resurgence of the Russian Orthodox Church under Putin. Clifford Gaddy, a senior ...

Everything in the image is meant to represent something, from the hairstyles to the color of the clothing of the various depictions of Jesus ... Russian icons spanning 600 years of the Eastern ...

For Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox believers, this Sunday is Easter. “It’s very important to me that Jesus Christ will come back to our lives – for everybody that accepts him,” said ...

said an influential monk who is the spiritual adviser to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church inspired the Jesus statue to come about. “He really wants to put up a statue of Jesus Christ as a ...