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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Life of ChristPentecost
Photograph in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons, file: Hosios_Loukas_Katholikon_(sanctuary_vault)_-_Pentecost_01.jpg, processed by user Shakko 2015). The underlying 11th-century mosaic is in the public domain.
PantocratorChrist Pantocrator
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.
Second ComingThe Anastasis
Photo by Shakko (Sofia Bagdasarova, 2014). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The underlying 11th-century mosaic 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.