Its remit covers Byzantine and Eastern art from the third century AD to 1923. ... a 16th-century Russian icon that was in the private collection of the Bavarian princely Oettingen-Wallerstein ...

Some of the 13th century icons on view at “Africa & Byzantium,” an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that opens Sunday. At center, painting of “Saint George with Scenes of His ...

Pawlowska began creating works inspired by traditional Orthodox icons 26 years ago, when her mother died on a visit to Sweden. She had moved to Scandinavia after meeting her husband in Moscow in 1993.

His other field changer is Mother of the Lamb, a book about the Byzantine icon known as the Virgin of the Passion. Art historians often give limp descriptions of icons as projections of imperial power ...

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

'Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox World is the first exhibition at Mona comprising only old art and the largest ever showing in Australia of jewel-like icons and related treasures ...