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.

348
ARTWORKS
10
COLLECTIONS
17
FLAGSHIPS
1,250+
YEARS
1 of 348Architecture →
COLLECTION:
ERA:
REGION:
MEDIUM:
The Kiss of JudasLife of Christ

The Kiss of Judas

11th century (Karanlık Kilise narrative cycle, Göreme open-air monastery)· Karanlık Kilise (Dark Church)
Photograph by Wolfgang Sauber (2010). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0). The underlying 11th-century fresco is in the public domain.