The current national identity of Greece is significantly affected by the Byzantine past of its territories and its people.

An exceptional discovery has brought to light the only known contemporary representation of the last emperor of the Byzantine ...

Panselinos has long been considered one of the great Byzantine artists of the 14th century. His true identity, however, had ...

Vikings attack the Byzantine Empire. Under the walls of Tsargrad. Detail from a medieval Russian icon.. Public Domain The riches of the Byzantine Empire were coveted by many—from the Vikings in the ...

The figure is described as an "earthly figure, a mature man with a thin face and individualized features, who exudes ...

Manuel Panselinos, as the artist is known, was influential among Byzantine art for adding a sense of humanity into otherwise ...

Work attributed to Panselinos, from the late 13th and early 14th centuries, is considered the finest produced in an empire ...

This course examines the art and architecture of the Byzantine empire from its sources in Late Antique Rome to its fall in 1453 as well as its influence in the Orthodox Christian art of Russia, Greece ...

Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle – the ...

Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle: The ...

“We are closer to the Quattrocento mind,” he wrote, “than to the Byzantine, for instance”. Fifty years later, Byzantium and the art it produced are still misunderstood, when not unknow ...

The Art of the Icon reports that from the 4th to the 15th centuries the center of the Orthodox Christian Church was the ...