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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 Myrrh-Bearing Women at the TombLife of Christ

The Myrrh-Bearing Women at the Tomb

First half of the 17th century (Arkhangelsk Region, Russian post-Byzantine continuation)· State Hermitage Museum
Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Александровы АГ. The underlying 17th-century Russian icon at the State Hermitage Museum is in the public domain.
Saint Anastasia of SirmiumSaints

Saint Anastasia of Sirmium

c. 1370–1400 (late Palaiologan; tempera on wood, 99 × 66 cm; previously in the Russky Archeological Institute in Constantinople)· State Hermitage Museum
Wikimedia Commons. Faithful photographic reproduction of a late-14th-century icon at the Hermitage. The underlying icon is in the public domain.
Saints Theodore Stratelates and Theodore TyronSaints

Saints Theodore Stratelates and Theodore Tyron

15th century· State Hermitage Museum
Photo by Netelo (2020). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The underlying 15th-century icon is in the public domain.

Photographs sourced primarily from Wikimedia Commons and museum open-access programs (Met CC0, Walters PD/CC BY-SA, British Museum CC BY 2.5, Cleveland Museum of Art CC0, Smithsonian Open Access, Dumbarton Oaks CC0). Originals are public domain by age; photographs carry the licenses noted on each artwork. Click any card for full credit, license, and a link back to the source.

THE SCRIPTORIUM — BE OBEDIENT & BE BOLD