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.

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 ...

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 ...

Was architecture really a non-factor in Byzantine art? A new book debunks conventional wisdom. Europe’s cathedrals, churches, monasteries, and baptisteries cover the countryside like Veronica ...

For 400 years, the Byzantine Empire, most commonly known as the Eastern Roman Empire or simply Byzantium, occupied the East. Constantine I founded it in Constantinople, and it became its capital after ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople ... Byzantine art, architecture, philosophy and theology are woven into the very fabric of Western history.