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 Cloud of WitnessesSaints

The Cloud of Witnesses

c. 380–410 (Theodosian conversion of the Galerian rotunda; mosaics among the earliest surviving Christian dome programs)· Rotunda of Hagios Georgios
Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Ymblanter (2021). Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The underlying late-4th / early-5th-century mosaic is in the public domain.