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Sharing our teaching method, I invite fellow iconographers to share their views on teaching, as only by approaching this subject from several sides can we foster a new generation of iconographers who will be better than us.
Iconography course taught by fr. Andrey Davydov in Abbazia di Praglia near Padova, Italy. 2000...

Vladimir Grygorenko painting at Holy Ascension, Mt. Pleasant, SC in 2023. Photo by Andrew Gould.
Editor’s Note: This open letter was written in response to Philip Davydov’s call for master iconographers address some fundamental questions about their art and its relationship to the Church....

Archdeacon Alexei Trunin and Philip Davydov. Photo by Ilia Khodyrev
Writing this text, I can’t help but feel that it opens up (or continues) a very extensive subject, which will require a lot of effort just to be introduced, and even more effort to be explained, but I will try…...

Resuming my photojournalism series highlighting Balkan churches, this post features an especially interesting and beautiful church in North Macedonia – The Church of Saint George in the village of Staro Nagoričane.
The church bears a unique form and history. It was originally built in the 10th century, almost certainly as a three-aisle basilica. It was likely later abandoned and ruinous, if indeed it had ever been completed. The monastery was refounded and rebuilt...