The Hagia Sophia mosaics are unique and represent the ultimate example of Byzantine craftsmanship. They are the only surviving examples of Byzantine mosaics from such a lengthy time period. They cover ...

Movies like Suck, The Transfiguration, Byzantium, Blood Red Sky, and Blade deserve to be in the conversation when fans discuss their favorite vampire movies, and we’d love to hear some of your ...

The Byzantine Empire was built on the backs of the rural and urban labour force. From agricultural production and the extraction of raw materials to the physical construction of urban centres and ...

Even before the war, the mosaic was well documented by archaeologists as a rare work of art that had survived iconoclasm — where use of religious images was banned by Byzantine emperors throughout the ...

The Greatest Happiness. The author’s taste for retroactive iconoclasm leads her now and then into dubious reasoning, as when she tries to tidy up the reputation of the post-Victorian novelist ...

This cathedral bore witness to both reverence and ruin. The Byzantine Iconoclasm (726–843) led to the destruction of its sacred images, while the Fourth Crusade (1204) saw Latin Crusaders plunder its ...

This slender book—iconoclastic in both form and content, and now sensitively translated into English by Natasha Lehrer—was dubbed “a literary tour de force” by French critics on its ...

“Janis Ian: Breaking Silence” is so close to being a great documentary that its easily remedied flaws are all the more vexing. Director Varda Bar-Kar (“Fandango at the Wall”) offers a ...

Devotional Hymns to the Theotokos are as ancient as the first Christian Church. From its inception at Constantinople during the fourth century, the Byzantine Empire closely allied itself to the Virgin ...

Each zodiac sign plays a distinct role in a film, from the charismatic Leo lead to the calculating Capricorn villain. The quirky Aquarius stands out as the outsider, while Cancer delivers ...