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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ApostlesThe Four Evangelists
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons; source: Syriac Patriarchate digital archive). The underlying 6th-century manuscript is in the public domain.
ChristologicalJoshua and the Two Spies (Joshua Roll)
ChristologicalSinope Gospels
ChristologicalEtchmiadzin Gospels
ChristologicalManuscript Leaf Showing an Illuminated Initial R with The Resurrection
ChristologicalManuscript Leaf from a Book of Hours Showing an Illuminated Initial D and Christ Bearing the Cross
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.
LiturgicalTwo Designs for Brooches in the "Byzantine" Style
LiturgicalCurtain Panel with Scenes of Merrymaking
LiturgicalManuscript Leaf Cutting Probably from a Missal with an Illuminated Initial S and King David Receiving the Holy Bread from Ahimelech the Priest.
MarianManuscript Illumination with the Assumption of the Virgin in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary
MarianManuscript Illumination with the Assumption of the Virgin in an Initial G, from a Gradual
SaintsManuscript Leaf Cutting showing an Illuminated Initial R with St. Protasius and St. Gervasius
SaintsManuscript Leaf Cutting from a Choir Book with an Illuminated Initial B and the Archangel Michael
SaintsManuscript Illumination with All Saints in an Initial V, from an Antiphonary
SaintsLeaf from a Lectionary with St. Luke
Saints