WHEN, in 1881, Arthur Evans saw the fresco of the angel on Christ’s sepulcher in the monastery of Mileševo, he had the impression that he was standing before a vision. In a remote mountainous area in ...

Alchemy in Byzantine times was a long intellectual tradition blending Ancient Greek science, Egyptian symbolism, and ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Art history is bigger, richer, more complicated, and more wondrous than you might think. It can also hit close to home, no matter how remote in time and place an artwork may seem.

“Oh, what gorgeous icons,” whispers a woman in a green suit to a friend. The two stand rapt before the jewel-encrusted “Virgin of Hodegetria,” one of more than 350 objects that make up the current ...

OF ALL, Europeans only the Greeks, and the Balkan peoples under their civilizing influences preserved the art forms, subjects, and principles of medieval Byzantium. Only if we fully appreciate this ...

At Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, having pored over a group of Byzantine textiles from the 4th to 12th centuries with curator Elizabeth Dospel Williams, I took away this general rule for ...