A golden surface filled with fine cracks, marks which time has etched upon the wood, holds fast the moment in...
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T. M. Pafilis has studied Theology, Political Science and History.
Two leaves of a triptych, with the central panel lost for centuries now, were painted in the middle of the...
In the northern section of the portico of the Holy Apostles of Thessaloniki, within the small chapel dedicated to the...
The abbot Paul, a disciple of Patriarch Niphon I, undertook around 1310 to continue the painted decoration of the chapel...
A young deacon with wavy chestnut-red hair has held, for nearly six centuries now, the censer of a liturgy that...
The inscription GEORGE, incised in white capitals beside the golden halo, identifies beyond doubt the figure examined here: a young...
A small wooden panel, its dimensions not exceeding forty-two by twenty-seven centimetres, is preserved in the Monastery of Saint Catherine...
On a small wooden panel, measuring only 46.4 by 25.5 centimetres, Byzantine art condensed the entire drama of the Crucifixion...
A portable icon of the eighteenth century, originating from the Greek Orthodox church of Barletta in Apulia, southern Italy, depicts...
A miniature on folio 35 of the manuscript Vaticanus graecus 1613, known as the Menologion of Basil II, dated to...
In the southern passage of the cathedral of Hagia Sophia, in Russian Novgorod, an anonymous painter of the twelfth century...
In the katholikon of Hilandar Monastery, on Mount Athos, there survives a fresco devoted to one of the most human...
