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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The Good ShepherdPantocrator

The Good Shepherd

c. 225 AD (mid-3rd century; pre-Constantinian early Christian funerary fresco; one of the earliest surviving Christian iconographic representations of Christ)· Catacomb of Priscilla
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Joseph Wilpert documentation, 1903; faithful reproduction of a c. 225 AD fresco). The underlying catacomb fresco is in the public domain.