X-Nico

9 unusual facts about Byzantine art


Akhtala Monastery

The murals are one of the best representations of Byzantine art art outside the traditional borders of Byzantium.

Byzantine Master of the Crucifix of Pisa

The painting contains all the canonical elements of this type of representation, already known from Byzantine art and miniatuer painting.

Ernst Kitzinger

Ernst Kitzinger (December 27, 1912 - January 22, 2003) was a German-American historian of late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine art.

Loznani

The church also hold magnificent medieval Byzantine art full of beautiful icons of Mary, the burial of the Virgin Mary, the crucifixion, and many saints and martyrs.

Menil Collection

Located in a separate building near the main collection, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel houses two 13th century Byzantine church frescos, an apse semi-dome of the Virgin Panagia and a dome with Christ Pantocrator (pictures on website).

Also included in the museum's permanent collection are Antiquities and works of Byzantine, Medieval and Tribal art.

Noël Duval

In 1960 he became interested in both Hispanic and Catalan archaeology and by 1976 he became a professor at Paris-Sorbonne University where he used to teach Late Antiquity and Byzantinian Art in Middle Ages.

Robert Garrett

In 1942 Garrett donated to Princeton University his collection of more than 11,000 manuscripts, including the Aksum Scrolls and sixteen Byzantine Greek manuscripts, containing rare and beautiful examples of illuminated Byzantine art for the use of scholars.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Auch

Auch Cathedral, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a Gothic structure with a Byzantine façade, but in spite of this incongruity, very imposing; its fifteenth-century windows are said to be the most beautiful in France.


Cyril Mango

Cyril Alexander Mango (born 14 April 1928) is a British scholar in the history, art, and architecture of the Byzantine Empire.

Elizabeth Blackadder

Blackadder studied early Byzantine art while at university, where she was influenced by William Gillies, Penelope Beaton and Robert Henderson Blyth, as well as by her lecturers.

Sophia Forero

She creates jewelry with colors and textures inspired by her study of international cultures, including Tuareg culture and Byzantine art.


see also

Arch of Constantine

Kitzinger, Ernst, Byzantine art in the making: main lines of stylistic development in Mediterranean art, 3rd-7th century, 1977, Faber & Faber, ISBN 0571111548 (US: Cambridge UP, 1977)

Gunnar Brands

Since 1996, hae has been professor of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History at the Institute for Oriental Archaeology and Art History at the In 1993/94 and 2000/01 he was a Fellow for Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.

Necmi Sönmez

Necmi Sönmez studied art history, Byzantine art history and classical archaeology in Mainz, Paris, Newcastle and Frankfurt am Main.

Palatine Chapel

Cappella Palatina of the Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo - the central monument of Arab-Norman-Byzantine art

Quedlinburg Itala fragment

Kitzinger, Ernst, Byzantine art in the making: main lines of stylistic development in Mediterranean art, 3rd-7th century, 1977, Faber & Faber, ISBN 0571111548 (US: Cambridge UP, 1977),