This exaltation of Earth’s endangered inhabitants pairs well with the form of traditional icons, which emerged with the rise of Orthodox Christianity in the first century CE.

And the only “icon” was an actual icon, in a review of an exhibition of 14th-century Tuscan art. “The show opens with a Byzantine icon,” we wrote, “the kind of hyper-stylised Greek ...

'Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox World is the first exhibition at Mona comprising only old art and the largest ever showing in Australia of jewel-like icons and related treasures ...

Its remit covers Byzantine and Eastern art from the third century AD to 1923. ... a 16th-century Russian icon that was in the private collection of the Bavarian princely Oettingen-Wallerstein ...

His other field changer is Mother of the Lamb, a book about the Byzantine icon known as the Virgin of the Passion. Art historians often give limp descriptions of icons as projections of imperial power ...

The leader of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine bestowed blessings upon 12 icons painted on body armor plates that saved the lives of Ukrainian soldiers as they battled invading Russian forces.

06/15/2023 June 15, 2023. Sixteen Byzantine icons were evacuated from a Ukrainian museum under fire. They are among the most precious works in art history. Five of them are now on display at the ...

Tuesdays, 5:45-8:15 pm; Instructor: Dr. Laurence Garneau; This course examines the development of early Christian and Byzantine art. It offers an opportunity to discover an important corpus of mosaics ...

An ornate Byzantine floor mosaic showing a variety of colorful birds and other animals has been discovered by chance in Gaza after a Palestinian farmer tried to plant new trees on his land ...