The Moslem followers of Mohammed the Conqueror who triumphantly stormed Constantinople in 1453 were so successful in covering up all traces of Christianity that for almost five centuries Byzantine art ...
Shimmering mosaics. Liturgical vestments. Classical sculpture. Elaborate jewelry. Comprising 63 works, “Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium From Greek Collections” is a modestly sized exhibition at the ...
Who would have thought that the machinations of the Tea Party in 2013 A.D. would be felt throughout the Byzantine Empire? And yet that is what happened in October, when the government shutdown caused ...
Joni Zavitsanos presents "My Father’s Daughter: Byzantine Art in the Modern World" opening reception
"My Father’s Daughter: Byzantine Art in the Modern World" is a special exhibition for local artist Joni Zavitsanos, as it chronicles the work of her late father, renowned Byzantine iconographer ...
Think of Byzantium, and a color leaps to mind. That color is gold. The empire ruled from the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea for a thousand years between AD 324 and its final ...
HENRY MAGUIRE AND EUNICE DAUTERMAN MAGUIRE Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 223 pp.; 8 color ills., 150 b/w. $49.50 For decades, ...
(The Conversation) — Fierce debates about visual depictions of the sacred have existed for centuries. An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ. (The ...
In November, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened Africa & Byzantium, its first Byzantine-focused exhibition in nearly 20 years. According to the museum’s press release, the show promises ...
At Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, having pored over a group of Byzantine textiles from the 4th to 12th centuries with curator Elizabeth Dospel Williams, I took away this general rule for ...
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