As I played Gorogoa I was struck by how much the visual style seemed reminiscent of key elements in the art and architecture ...

There’s a bit of misdirection going on with the Byzantine Crypt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Unlike the Temple of Dendur, which is a temple, the Crypt isn’t a crypt but a gallery, and though the ...

Europe’s cathedrals, churches, monasteries, and baptisteries cover the countryside like Veronica’s veil. They comprise the continent’s landmarks and focal attractions and, for centuries, have been ...

Shimmering mosaics. Liturgical vestments. Classical sculpture. Elaborate jewelry. Comprising 63 works, “Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium From Greek Collections” is a modestly sized exhibition at the ...

A near-perfect moment occurred just as I finished my first visit to "Byzantine Things in the World" at the Menil Collection. Standing right inside a doorway to the left of the exhibit entrance, I ...

Medieval Europe was filled with bronze horses, rich mosaics, and magnificent churches. While Rome fell in the West, it lived on through the Middle Ages in the East as the Byzantine Empire. Its capital ...

Think of Byzantium, and a color leaps to mind. That color is gold. The empire ruled from the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea for a thousand years between AD 324 and its final ...