Byzantine capital; 6) Early christian capita; 7) Arabian mosaic; 8 - 9) Arab miniature art; 10) Arab ornament of a roof ridge crown; 11 - 12) Moorish stucco; 13) Moorish mosaic; 14 - 15) Persian ...

Coptic art is quite often treated as isolated, but Egypt and its art are in the Byzantine and early Islamic Period part of the Byzantine and then Arab empires. Christian art in Egypt was always very ...

Precious ivory carvings and mosaic icons document the high technical and artistic standard of Byzantine court art. Finally, everyday objects from Egypt give insights into ordinary life, while ...

This extensive new survey of Armenian Christian art, published to accompany a major exhibition at The British ... This sumptuously illustrated book will be of immense value to anyone with an interest ...

This course explores the origins of the development of early Christian and Byzantine art and thought. Focusing on a thematic rather than a chronological approach, the course acknowledges broader ...

1300-1350," an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on view through Jan. 25, hangs a small Byzantine icon of the Virgin and Child from the 13th century. On an adjacent wall is a ...

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, Constantine XI Palaiologos (Feb. 8, 1404 – May 29, 1453), dubbed the last Christian ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos was the “last Christian Emperor of Constantinople ... preserved portrait of an emperor in Byzantine monumental painting,” added the Ministry of Culture.

A new department dedicated to Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox Christian art is expected to open at the Musée du Louvre in 2027 ...