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.
150
ARTWORKS
10
COLLECTIONS
17
FLAGSHIPS
1,250+
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OT TypologyJoseph Gathering Corn
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons; faithful reproduction of a 13th-century mosaic). The underlying San Marco 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.