Recent archaeological excavations in Israel have revealed a rare find: early Christian art from around 1,500 years ago. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery in a Facebook ...

This course seeks to provide a broad survey of the early centuries of Christian architecture and art, both in the East and in the West. The semester is structured around a series of interrelated ...

Archaeologists recently discovered an extraordinary 1,200-year-old loaf of bread bearing the image of Jesus Christ at the Topraktepe archaeological site in Turkey.

Office: Andrews: Suite 210A Phone: (757) 221-2535 Email: [[cstancioiu]] Areas of Specialization: Early Christian, Byzantine and Medieval Art Cristina Stancioiu received her PhD from the University of ...

Founded in 1903, The Burlington Magazine soon established itself as the world's leading monthly art periodical. Covering all aspects of the fine and decorative arts from ancient times to the present ...

Medieval Europe was filled with bronze horses, rich mosaics, and magnificent churches. While Rome fell in the West, it lived on through the Middle Ages in the East as the Byzantine Empire. Its capital ...

Altar Frontal. New Julfa, 1741. Gold, silver, and silk threads on silk. (Hrair Hawk Khatcherian and Lilit Khachatryan/The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Review by Philip Kennicott NEW YORK — Orson Welles ...

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 ...