Since then each fragmentary restoration has added new proof of the power and achievement of Byzantine religious art between the 4th and 15th centuries A.D. Five years ago a task force financed by ...

In 1990, excavations of an ancient monastery in the Negev Desert of southern Israel revealed a sprawling mosaic dating back ...

Studies of Byzantine art commonly focus on a particular medium ... high from low culture. This is no easy task, and the audiors accomplish it admirably. By juxtaposing - both visually and conceptually ...

Panselinos is seen as bringing greater attention to perspective and human expression to Byzantine art. In addition to painting some of northern Greece’s most treasured church murals, Panselinos ...

“We are closer to the Quattrocento mind,” he wrote, “than to the Byzantine, for instance”. Fifty years later, Byzantium and the art it produced are still misunderstood, when not unknow ...