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 Theotokos HodegetriaTheotokos

The Theotokos Hodegetria

c. 1080–1130 (11th-century original; main figure reworked after a 12th-century earthquake; the saints below remain from the first program)· Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
Photograph by José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro (2016). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The underlying 11th–12th century mosaic is in the public domain.