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.

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

His last name Monomachos — meaning "one who fights alone," or essentially "the gladiator" in Greek — distinguished him as part of an aristocratic family that was active in the politics of the ...

(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.

The Byzantine Empire, also called Byzantium, ... "Hagia Sophia's dimensions are formidable for any structure not built of steel," Helen Gardner, an art historian, and Fred Kleiner, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.