Byzantine Art Project
150 artworks from the great traditions of Byzantine and Eastern Christian iconography, each paired with a doctrinal reflection. The corpus surfaces GLM's confessional shape case by case as the iconography requires it — read what the picture argues.
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AngelsThe Archangel Gabriel
Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen / Jastrow (2008). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic (CC BY 2.5). The underlying 12th-century mosaic is in the public domain.
Iconoclasm DebateVirgin Enthroned with Saints Theodore and George
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons; faithful reproduction of a two-dimensional public domain work). Underlying late-6th-century encaustic icon (Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai) is in the public domain.
PantocratorChrist in the Mandorla
Photograph by Votpuske (2023). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The underlying 6th–7th-century Bawit niche painting (Coptic Museum, Cairo) is in the public domain.
TheotokosTheotokos Enthroned with the Magi
Photo by Marie Thérèse Hébert & Jean Robert Thibault (2019). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0). The underlying 6th-century mosaic is in the public domain.
TheotokosTheotokos of the Apse
Photo by Dick Osseman (Dosseman, 2019). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The underlying 9th-century mosaic is in the public domain.
TheotokosTriptych Icon of the Virgin and Child with Saints
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (Acc. 71.158). Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0) per the Walters' 2012 mass-release of collection imagery to Wikimedia Commons. The underlying 10th-century ivory is in the public domain.
TheotokosThe Dormition of the Theotokos
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons; Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access). Released under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The underlying late-10th-century Byzantine ivory plaque (18.6 × 14.8 cm) is in the public domain.
TheotokosTheotokos of the Apse
Photo by Hans A. Rosbach (2009). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0). The underlying 11th-century mosaic is in the public domain.
TheotokosThe Virgin Orans
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons, file: Oranta-Kyiv.jpg, source Google Arts & Culture). The underlying 11th-century mosaic is in the public domain.
TheotokosTheotokos Agiosoritissa
Photograph by Wolfgang Sauber (2017). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The underlying 11th–12th-century icon at Spoleto Cathedral is in the public domain.
TheotokosThe Presentation of the Theotokos
Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto (2025). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Italy (CC BY-SA 2.5 IT). The underlying 11th-century mosaic is in the public domain.
TheotokosThe Theotokos Hodegetria
Photograph by José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro (2016). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The underlying 11th–12th century mosaic is in the public domain.
TheotokosThe Nicopeia (Theotokos Nikopoios — Virgin Bringer of Victory)
Wikimedia Commons (faithful photographic reproduction). Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The underlying c. 1100–1120 Komnenian-era icon is in the public domain.
TheotokosTheotokos of Vladimir
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons, file: Vladimirskaja_ikona_Božiej_Materi.jpg). Source: Tretyakov Gallery CD-ROM (2004). The underlying 12th-century icon (104 × 69 cm, tempera on panel) is in the public domain.
TheotokosThe Annunciation
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons, file: Annunciation_Icon_Sinai_12th_century.jpg, scanned 2008). The underlying late-12th-century icon (61 × 42 cm, tempera on panel) is in the public domain.
TheotokosTheotokos Hodegetria
Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto (2009), Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens. Wikimedia Commons. Released under attribution-only license (cited per the photographer's terms). The underlying 13th-century icon is in the public domain.
TheotokosThe Annunciation at the Well
Photo by Byzantine Institute staff (1952), MSBZ004-ICFA-KC-BIA-0366. Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington DC. Released under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The underlying 14th-century mosaic is in the public domain.
TheotokosThe Visitation
Photograph by George E. Koronaios (2023). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The underlying 1751 fresco is in the public domain.