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Slobodan (Danny) Ćurčić, professor of art and archaeology, emeritus, at Princeton University, and a global authority on Byzantine art and architecture, died Dec. 3 in Thessaloniki, Greece.He was 76.
In 2027, the Louvre will reveal a renovated space for Byzantine art, ... "Musée du Louvre Selects WHY Architecture and BGC for Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art Expansion" 26 Sep 2024.
Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East studies at Mutah University—began looking for Tharais. The field project ...
For Eastern Christians, particularly the Greek and Russian Orthodox, the Byzantine Empire has become the symbol of their lost prestige, a homeland whose return — whether on the Bosporus or the ...
The course aims to foster discussions revolving around art, architecture, and ideas, focusing on key philosophers, theologians, and theoreticians, such as Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, ...
The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople ... Byzantine art, architecture, philosophy and theology are woven into the very fabric of Western history.
Claire Vernon, From Byzantine to Norman Italy: Mediterranean Art and Architecture in Medieval Bari (New Directions in Byzantine Studies). London: I. B. Taurus 2023. xii + 269 pp. 137 ill., 4 maps. ...
As I played Gorogoa I was struck by how much the visual style seemed reminiscent of key elements in the art and architecture of Byzantium, the Greek colony-turned-empire synonymous with ...
Students will consider how leading men and women shaped Byzantine Civilization and the political and military institutions that preserved it through the fifteenth century. The course will also focus ...
(The Conversation) — Fierce debates about visual depictions of the sacred have existed for centuries. An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ.