One is the new Byzantine Empire gallery — our first contact with Christian art. It’s the first Byzantine gallery in New England and a rare collaboration among four different branches of this ...

The Art World’s Orientalist Fantasies About the Byzantine Empire In the West, the relationship with Byzantium has taken on the characteristics of other instances of colonial objectification.

One of only three surviving Byzantine crowns, it depicts a man and two sisters who jointly ruled the empire in the 11th century.

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

(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.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A late Byzantine icon, made around 1450 with gleaming touches of gold leaf, headlines the latest round of acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, which roam the globe and ...

Every so often, a visitor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City questions the accuracy of an exhibit, but Helen Evans, one of the museum's curators, says not all of them are right ...

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 ...

A few months later, Helen Evans, the Met's curator for Byzantine art, sent Coady an email: "You are, of course, correct about the boundaries of the Byzantine Empire under Justinian," she wrote.

The map purported to show the Byzantine Empire at its largest size in the 6th century, but he noticed that Spain and part of Africa were missing from the depiction.

In addition to protecting Europe from eastern invasions, maintaining Greek and Roman languages, producing fine art with distinctive style, protecting the Christian Orthodox Church, the Byzantine ...