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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The Moslem followers of Mohammed the Conqueror who triumphantly stormed Constantinople in 1453 were so successful in covering up all traces of Christianity that for almost five centuries ...

They are a treasure trove of information about the ancient world, including early Christianity. To some extent, the Oxyrhynchus papyri were overshadowed by the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in ...

Making space for it in the museum requires philanthropical support, too. In early 2024, ... Maximilien Durand, project director, department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art, Louvre.

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 ...

A show of prints and drawings at Thrivent Financial in Minneapolis is studded with 500 years of European masterpieces.