Galich Gospel of 1357: 4 Evangelist Portraits
The four Evangelists, fol. 27v of the Galich Gospel of 1357, GIM Syn. 68, with John and Mark above Luke and Matthew. The four Evangelists r...
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Evangelist Matthew Miniature: A 15th-Century Russian Gospel
An elderly Matthew sits at his writing desk beneath a red canopy, enclosed by tall, closely packed buildings. This Evangelist Matthew miniat...
The Horologion of 1423 and Its Church of the Holy Apostles Miniature
On folio 1v, the Horologion of 1423 opens with an architecture charged throughout with symbolic meaning. The parchment manuscript, produc...
Deesis at St Peter of Koriša
The Deesis at St Peter of Koriša , painted at the end of the twelfth or beginning of the thirteenth century, occupied the upper register o...
St Peter of Koriša Frescoes: Archangel Michael and the Heavenly Liturgy
The St Peter of Koriša frescoes preserve two medieval campaigns of painting within the cave hermitage near Prizren, their surviving forms...
Our Lady Hodegetria and St George Icon: A Double-Sided Work from Novgorod
The Our Lady Hodegetria and St George icon is a monumental double-sided panel associated with Novgorod and attributed by the Moscow Kreml...
Peć Ascension Fresco: Angel Supporting Christ’s Mandorla
Angel supporting Christ’s mandorla, detail of the Ascension in the dome of the Church of the Holy Apostles, Patriarchate of Peć, mid-13th ce...
Chudov 12: The Royal Miniature of Boris-Michael, Tsar Simeon, or Saint Boris
Royal frontispiece miniature in GIM, Chud. 12, fol. 1v, traditionally identified as Boris-Michael or Tsar Simeon and later linked to Saint B...
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Virgin Eleousa of Kastoria: An Early Fifteenth-Century Byzantine Icon
Virgin Eleousa, early fifteenth century, portable icon from the Church of St …
Panagia Machairiotissa Icon: The Agiosoritissa of Machairas Monastery
The Panagia Machairiotissa icon, preserved in the katholikon of Machairas Mon…
Archangel Faces at Pantanassa in Mystras
The Archangel Faces at Pantanassa belong to the fifteenth-century wall paint…
Dormition of the Theotokos: A 16th-Century Icon in Venice
In this sixteenth-century icon at the Church of Saint George of the Greeks in V…
Christ as the Angel of Great Counsel: A Powerful 1620 Wall Painting by Georgios Moschos
Christ as the Angel of Great Counsel, Georgios Moschos, 1620, southern domical …
Enthroned Virgin and Child at Great Meteoron
Enthroned Virgin and Child, old katholikon of the Great Meteoron Monastery, Met…
St Peter of Koriša Frescoes: Archangel Michael and the Heavenly Liturgy
The St Peter of Koriša frescoes preserve two medieval campaigns of painting …
Peter and John Mosaic in the Ascension at Hagia Sophia, Thessaloniki
The Apostles Peter and John in the late ninth-century Ascension mosaic of Hagia…
Frangos Katelanos: Christ Zoodotes Icon at Korçë
Christ Zoodotes (The Life-Giver), attributed to Frangos Katelanos, ca. 1542–15…
Healing Miracles at the Hodegetria in Mystras: Bethesda and the Haemorrhaging Woman
Healing of the Paralytic at Bethesda and the Woman with the Haemorrhage, Hodeg…