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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Two-Sided Pendant with the Archangel Michael and Daniel in the Lions' DenAngels

Two-Sided Pendant with the Archangel Michael and Daniel in the Lions' Den

c. 1200 or later (Constantinople workshop; small portable devotional pendant)· Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Open Access (Public Domain / CC0). The underlying c. 1200+ serpentine pendant is in the public domain. Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Hayford Peirce, 1987.