New York. There’s a bit of misdirection going on with the Byzantine Crypt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Unlike the Temple of Dendur, which is a temple, the Crypt isn’t a crypt but a ...

The Art World’s Orientalist Fantasies About the Byzantine Empire In the West, the relationship with Byzantium has taken on the characteristics of other instances of colonial objectification.

Byzantine art is rich in symbolism, often used to convey religious and spiritual messages. Klimt adopted this symbolic approach in “The Kiss,” embedding layers of meaning within the painting.

RAVENNA is the world's chief repository of early Byzantine art, surpassing even Istanbul, the capital of Byzantium. The ancient churches and chapels of the sleepy Italian town (pop. 35,000) are ...

Installation view of ‘Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt’ featuring Michael Aschenbrenner’s ‘Damaged Bone Series’ (1990). Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, ...

Building a medieval castle from scratch 04:02. Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle - the true identity of a ...

The Musée du Louvre aims to bring these treasures closer to the public with a new department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art. Slated to open in 2027, ...

As a historian of Byzantine art familiar with the fierce debates over sacred images in the 8th and 9th centuries, I consider Miller’s statement a challenge to how students might study religious ...

Ohio's biggest art museum unveiled exhibition plans for 2024 that focus on North Africa, Korea, and works by Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet. Skip to Article Set weather ...

Professor Emeritus of History of Art Robert Ousterhout died at the age of 73 on April 23. Ousterhout specialized in Byzantine art and architecture, and was known as one of the leading scholars in ...