The Michael VIII Palaiologos lead seal, preserved in the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki, belongs to the reign of...
The John III Doukas Vatatzes hyperpyron, struck at Magnesia during the reign of the Nicaean emperor John III (1222–1254), brings...
The Hagia Sophia Trebizond omphalion is a thirteenth-century marble floor panel from the church of Hagia Sophia at Trebizond, the...
The Holy Mandylion Byzantine icon preserved at Saint Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai survives in an unusual form: two narrow...
The Apostle Andrew Byzantine icon preserved at the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos presents the saint as...
Preserved at the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos, this Byzantine Crucifixion enkolpion cross is dated to the 13th–14th...
Measuring only about 46.4 × 25.5 cm, the Sinai Crucifixion Icon preserves one of the most consequential early formulations of...
Dating from the 13th century, this Byzantine reliquary cross is preserved in the treasury of the Holy and Great Monastery...
Among the monumental panel icons of Late Byzantine Thessaloniki, the Christ the Wisdom of God icon occupies an unusual position....
The Apostle Paul fresco at Mystras, dating from the opening decades of the fourteenth century, survives as a striking fragment...
Emmanuel Tzanes painted The Tree of Jesse in 1644, creating a large Post-Byzantine panel icon in tempera on wood, approximately...
El Greco’s Dormition of the Virgin, generally dated shortly before 1567 and often placed around 1565–1566, belongs to the small...