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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Life of ChristThe Myrrh-Bearing Women at the Tomb
Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Александровы АГ. The underlying 17th-century Russian icon at the State Hermitage Museum is in the public domain.
SaintsSaint Anastasia of Sirmium
Wikimedia Commons. Faithful photographic reproduction of a late-14th-century icon at the Hermitage. The underlying icon is in the public domain.
SaintsSaints Theodore Stratelates and Theodore Tyron
Photo by Netelo (2020). Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The underlying 15th-century icon is in the public domain.