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 Lion and the DragonSecond Coming

The Lion and the Dragon

c. 1547 (Voroneț exterior fresco program; commissioned under Metropolitan Grigore Roșca during the reign of Petru Rareș)· Voroneț Monastery
Photograph by Gary Todd (2016). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The underlying c. 1547 fresco at Voroneț Monastery is in the public domain.