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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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Saints Boris and GlebSaints

Saints Boris and Gleb

c. 1340–1370 (Old Russian iconography; commemorating the 1015 martyrdom of Vladimir's princely sons)· State Russian Museum (Государственный Русский музей)
Google Art Project / Wikimedia Commons. The underlying mid-14th-century icon at the State Russian Museum is in the public domain. Photographic reproduction released under CC0/PD; structured metadata under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Anastasis (Resurrection)Second Coming

The Anastasis (Resurrection)

c. 1480–1500 (Novgorod school; Old Russian iconographic flowering)· State Russian Museum (Государственный Русский музей)
Photograph by Sailko (2011). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) and GNU Free Documentation License 1.2+. The underlying late 15th-century Novgorod-school icon at the State Russian Museum 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