Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” stands as one of the most iconic pieces of art from the early 20th century. Created between 1907 and 1908, this masterpiece is celebrated for its unique style and profound ...
Who would have thought that the machinations of the Tea Party in 2013 A.D. would be felt throughout the Byzantine Empire? And yet that is what happened in October, when the government shutdown caused ...
The Moslem followers of Mohammed the Conqueror who triumphantly stormed Constantinople in 1453 were so successful in covering up all traces of Christianity that for almost five centuries Byzantine art ...
Joni Zavitsanos presents "My Father’s Daughter: Byzantine Art in the Modern World" opening reception
"My Father’s Daughter: Byzantine Art in the Modern World" is a special exhibition for local artist Joni Zavitsanos, as it chronicles the work of her late father, renowned Byzantine iconographer ...
Shimmering mosaics. Liturgical vestments. Classical sculpture. Elaborate jewelry. Comprising 63 works, “Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium From Greek Collections” is a modestly sized exhibition at the ...
Ernst Kitzinger, one of the 20th century's foremost historians of Byzantine, early Christian and early medieval art, died at his home in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on Jan. 22. He was 90. Dr. Kitzinger, who ...
A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery in ...
HENRY MAGUIRE AND EUNICE DAUTERMAN MAGUIRE Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 223 pp.; 8 color ills., 150 b/w. $49.50 For decades, ...
Think of Byzantium, and a color leaps to mind. That color is gold. The empire ruled from the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea for a thousand years between AD 324 and its final ...
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