Against an unbroken field of gold, Saint John Chrysostom appears with the concentrated severity characteristic of the eleventh-century mosaic decoration...
Against a field of gold leaf, worn by centuries of fine craquelure and scattered losses, the crucified body of Christ...
Deep-set eyes, unmoving and fixed on whoever stands before him, look out from beneath a forehead scored by decades of...
The position of the Christ Child gives the Hosios Loukas Hodegetria mosaic its first distinction: he rests on the Virgin’s...
A youthful angel turns his head downward beneath a broad ochre halo, his dense curls held by a narrow white...
In the narthex of the katholikon at the Monastery of Hosios Loukas, the Washing of the Feet unfolds across a...
Contemporaries called him Kafsokalyvites because, whenever a shelter began to feel like a possession, he set fire to it and...
In the south-western chapel of the catholicon at the Monastery of Hosios Loukas, in Boeotia, a triad of military saints...
Against the deep blue ground of the kyriakon at Nea Skete on Mount Athos, the eighteenth-century Saint Maximos Kausokalybites wall...
A crowded table, not a dancing girl, occupies the center of this Palaiologan fresco, and the choice says something about...
A wooden icon panel measuring seventy-one by fifty-four centimeters, crafted around 1580 by an anonymous Russian iconographer, is preserved today...
The Saint Peter Icon at Mount Sinai belongs to the exceptionally small body of panel paintings that preserves the visual...