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 Lord SabaothPantocrator

The Lord Sabaoth

c. 1650 (Moscow tradition; preserved in Old Believer circles after the 1666–1667 Synod)· Russian Old Believer tradition (private collection
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons; faithful reproduction of a public-domain icon). The underlying mid-17th-century Russian icon (private collection, Old Believer provenance) is in the public domain.