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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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Patriarch Nikephoros and the IconoclastIconoclasm Debate

Patriarch Nikephoros and the Iconoclast

c. 850s (mid-9th century, post-843 iconodule polemical illumination program; Khludov Psalter is the most-studied surviving 9th-century iconodule manuscript)· State Historical Museum
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons; faithful reproduction of a 9th-century manuscript folio published before 1931). The underlying Khludov Psalter (State Historical Museum, Moscow, MS D.129) is in the public domain.
Crucifixion with IconoclastsIconoclasm Debate

Crucifixion with Iconoclasts

c. 850–875 (mid-9th c., shortly after the Triumph of Orthodoxy in 843)· State Historical Museum
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons; scanned 2021). The underlying mid-9th-century manuscript folio (19.5 × 15 cm; State Historical Museum, Moscow, MS D.129) is in the public domain.
The Crossing of the Red SeaOT Typology

The Crossing of the Red Sea

c. 850s (mid-9th century, post-843 iconodule polemical-and-liturgical illumination program)· State Historical Museum
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons; faithful reproduction of a 9th-century manuscript folio published before 1931). The underlying Khludov Psalter (State Historical Museum, Moscow, MS D.129) 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