Byzantine Art Project
Artworks from the great traditions of Byzantine and Eastern Christian iconography, each paired with a doctrinal reflection. The corpus surfaces GLM's confessional shape case by case as the iconography requires it — read what the picture argues.
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ImperialComnenus Mosaic (Hagia Sophia)
ImperialEmperor Leo VI Mosaic (Hagia Sophia)
ImperialVienna Dioscurides — Anicia Juliana
Vienna Dioscurides (Cod. Med. gr. 1), fol. 6v — Anicia Juliana dedication miniature, c. AD 515, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
ImperialEmpress Zoe Panel, Hagia Sophia
ImperialEmperor Justinian and His Court, San Vitale, Ravenna
ImperialEmpress Theodora and Her Court, San Vitale, Ravenna
ImperialBarberini Ivory
ImperialTsar Constantine Tikh Asen (Boyana)
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