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3 days ago · The Kapnikarea Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Panagia Kapnikarea), is one of the most important and best-preserved examples of Middle Byzantine architecture in Greece. Dating back to the 11th century, this unassuming church has borne witness to nearly a thousand years of Athenian history, offering contemporary visitors a rare glimpse ...
3 days ago · The Byzantine contribution to art, and especially to painting, was original and reached a degree of expressiveness that can rarely be compared with any other. Byzantine art continues to be influential and is still discussed today mainly because of its abstract character and rich, earthy colors. Its influence is most evident in Italy.
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3 days ago · Mandaean Beth Manda ( Mashkhanna) in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq in 2016, a contemporary-style mandi. Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: [ɣnostiˈkos], 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian ...
3 days ago · Byzantine art has been compared to contemporary abstraction, in its flatness and highly stylised depictions of figures and landscape. Some periods of Byzantine art, especially the so-called Macedonian art of around the 10th century, are more flexible in approach.
2 days ago · Archaeologists have made a fascinating discovery: a Byzantine-era church in the northern Negev desert, with wall art depicting ships. The Israel Antiquities Authority released a press release on ...
3 days ago · Harris argues that a key to the understanding of the interaction between Byzantium and the Latin West lies in the nature of the Byzantine imperial ideology. The Byzantines considered Constantinople both the political centre of the Christian world and a holy city, a new Rome and second Jerusalem.
2 days ago · Emperor Constantine I decriminalized Christianity in the Roman Empire by the Edict of Milan (313), later convening the Council of Nicaea (325) where Early Christianity was consolidated into what would become the state religion of the Roman Empire (380).
