Byzantine art is rich in symbolism, often used to convey religious and spiritual messages. Klimt adopted this symbolic approach in “The Kiss,” embedding layers of meaning within the painting.

A pilot is dead and 19 tourists are injured after a hot air balloon crashed in central Turkey on Sunday, June 15. That same ...

A series of enameled gold panelsWhere it is from: Ivanka pri Nitre, a village in central SlovakiaWhen it was made: Between A.D. 1042 and 1050Related: Assyrian swimmers: 2,900-year-old carving of ...

Into the rigid Byzantine forms that had governed Eastern religious art for almost a thousand years, Byzantine artists poured a new warmth drawn from revived classic models.

New York. 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 ...

Installation view of ‘Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt’ featuring Michael Aschenbrenner’s ‘Damaged Bone Series’ (1990).

The new Byzantine department is obliged by French heritage law to play a critical role in advice and expertise, particularly for the art market. Its remit covers Byzantine and Eastern art from the ...

Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle - the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who injected humanity into ...

As a historian of Byzantine art familiar with the fierce debates over sacred images in the 8th and 9th centuries, I consider Miller’s statement a challenge to how students might study religious ...

Let's pause to consider the value of Byzantine art and how its music and iconography have such great spiritual significance. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Describing the ...