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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Christ as Orpheus (Christ-Orpheus Arcosolium)Pantocrator

Christ as Orpheus (Christ-Orpheus Arcosolium)

c. 300–350 (early-4th century, pre- or early-Constantinian; pagan-Roman pastoral iconographic vocabulary reframed as Christ-image)· Catacomb of Saints Marcellinus and Peter
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons). The underlying c. 4th-century catacomb fresco is in the public domain.