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Houston’s Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, one of the largest Greek Orthodox communities in the nation, expects to cover each of its walls with colorful Byzantine iconography by the year 2027, ...

A farmer’s unexpected discovery in Slovakia has revealed a stunning 1,000-year-old crown ...

​A remarkable 1,000-year-old artefact has been discovered at the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona, Italy, by Federica Gigante, a historian from the University of Cambridge. It may not ...

A stunning Byzantine-era mosaic has been unveiled to the public for the first time, offering a glimpse into life in the Negev ...

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Ronald Reagan's election sparked a counterrevolution in the arts community, with Dylan, Bono and Scorsese among those showing their faith, sometimes controversially, in work of that era.

Daphni’s mosaic designers worked at a time when Byzantine artists, moving away from elongated and stylized forms, turned for suave beauty and expert molding to the long-ignored classic Greek models.

M. Fedyuk, a Ukrainian art scholar, described Kondzelevych’s work as representing the consummate fusion of the ornate Byzantine style with the humanism of the Western European Renaissance.

Schisms between Eastern and Western Christianity notwithstanding, Byzantine art, architecture, philosophy and theology are woven into the very fabric of Western history.

Next up in our Art Deco Centenary series we spotlight Hildreth Meière, a key muralist whose legacy was eclipsed by her better-known male contemporaries.

The Louvre never acquired a Duccio. EH Gombrich’s The Story of Art gives Florentine pioneer Giotto seven pages; Duccio gets a paragraph, without illustration. Things changed in the 21st century.