Tag: art

Icons Today – 25-27 October 2012

British Association of Iconographers 10th Anniversary Exhibition St Saviour’s Church Hall, St George’s Square, London SW1V 3QW, 1030 to 1830 daily (1600 Saturday). Nearest Tube: Pimlico Over 150 hand-painted icons by 50…

Bethlehem Icon School

In the summer, we arranged for the iconographer Ian Knowles, founding director of the Bethlehem Icon School, to give a presentation on the School, and to tell us something of his work to conserve…

Martorana: Palermo’s Byzantine Jewel

by OCP on February 20, 2011 Examples of Greek Orthodox culture can still be found in Palermo, Sicily at the Santo Maria dell’Ammriaglio, (Santa Maria of the Admiral), the Martorana, which features…

Pamela Sandilands, Dowager Lady Torpichen

Fr John Salter writes: Pamela Torphichen was a devout Roman Catholic and a keen ecumenist long before it became acceptable or fashionable to be so. It was while at school at the…

St John Damascene, a Leading Figure of Byzantine Theology

The Vatican Information Service writes, 6 May 2009: In his general audience held this morning in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope focused his remarks on St. John Damascene (675-749), “a leading figure…