This course explores the origins of the development of early Christian and Byzantine art and thought. Focusing on a thematic rather than a chronological approach, the course acknowledges broader ...

Israeli archaeologists have discovered early Christian art from around 1,500 years ago. It was likely drawn between the late Byzantine era and the early Islamic period.

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When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...

NEW YORK — Mosaics, paintings, jewelry, ceramics, manuscripts from the 4th to the 15th century: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is showing 200 ancient and mediaeval works that reflect a ...

Eastern Christian art has been present in the Louvre’s holdings from its very beginnings as the Muséum Central des Arts de la République, when post-Revolutionary officials collated what they ...

For the very first time in Musée du Louvre history, the visitor trails for two departments – Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, and Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art – have been ...

Since its discovery by modern researchers a century ago, an ancient structure known as the “Christian building” has become widely considered the cornerstone of early Christian architecture.