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 Apostle PeterApostles

The Apostle Peter

13th century (Byzantine, post-Schism, pre-Palaeologan)· Dumbarton Oaks Museum
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons; faithful reproduction of a two-dimensional public domain work). The underlying 13th-century Byzantine icon (93 × 61.3 cm; Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Washington D.C.) is in the public domain.