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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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The Holy Mandylion (Image of Edessa)Iconoclasm Debate

The Holy Mandylion (Image of Edessa)

Image: c. 10th–13th century (Byzantine, exact dating contested); Frame: late 14th century, Palaiologan silver-gilt with ten embossed scenes of the Edessa legend. Donated 1362 by Emperor John V Palaiologos to Doge Leonardo Montaldo of Genoa; bequeathed 1388 to San Bartolomeo degli Armeni· Church of San Bartolomeo degli Armeni
Photograph by Postcrosser (2018). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The underlying Byzantine Mandylion icon and 14th-century frame are in the public domain.

150 artworks, photographs sourced primarily from Wikimedia Commons with eight from museum open-access programs (Met CC0, Walters PD/CC BY-SA, British Museum CC BY 2.5, Dumbarton Oaks CC0). Originals are public domain by age; photographs carry the licenses noted on each artwork. Click any card for full credit, license, and a link back to the source.

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