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 ...

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 ...

An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ. (The Conversation) — An adjunct lecturer at Hamline University recently lost her job for showing an ...

Constantinos Vafiadis, a professor of Byzantine art in Athens who was not involved in the studies, said he found merit in the nickname theory and Astrapas link, even though it appeared more than ...

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 ...

This course explores the origins of the development of early Christian and Byzantine art and thought. Focusing on a thematic rather than a chronological approach, the course acknowledges broader ...