Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce - but with a lot more chariots. Script and narration by Emma Nagouse ...

Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine ...

and cross-cultural conflicts that shaped the complex geo-political and religious context of the Early Christian and Byzantine visual culture. Detail of Empress Theodora, ca. 547, mosaic, Basilica of ...