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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 Angel with Golden Hair (Archangel Gabriel)Angels

The Angel with Golden Hair (Archangel Gabriel)

c. 1150–1200 (Old Russian, Novgorod school; one of Russia's oldest surviving icons; gold-leaf-stripped hair gives the icon its name)· State Russian Museum
Google Art Project / Wikimedia Commons. The underlying late-12th-century Novgorod-school icon at the Russian Museum is in the public domain.
The Holy Apostles Peter and PaulApostles

The Holy Apostles Peter and Paul

c. 1190–1210 (one of the earliest surviving Old Russian panel icons; Novgorod-school iconographic vocabulary in early-Russian-Christianity context, c. 200 years after Vladimir's 988 conversion)· State Russian Museum
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons; faithful reproduction of a c. 1200 icon scanned from Sarabyanov and Smirnova, *Russian Icon Painting*, 2007). The underlying icon is 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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