byzantine art selection
The very best in unique, custom or handmade pieces. Art and architecture flourished during the Middle Byzantine period, owing to the empire’s growing wealth and broad base of affluent patrons.
The very best in unique, custom or handmade pieces. Art and architecture flourished during the Middle Byzantine period, owing to the empire’s growing wealth and broad base of affluent patrons.
The ultimum christian symbol. Find out our wide selection of quality wall crucifixes to Christian crosses in a variety of materials always in top quality. Find the religious gifts you’re looking for
Engolpion is a general term for something worn upon the bosom. As a bishop’s vestment, it refers to a medallion with an icon in the center. We carry a vast variety of Engolpions from Handmade wooden carved to gem stones; whichever fit your needs
Art produced in the Byzantine empire (or Eastern Roman Empire)—at its height, a territory that spanned large swaths of the Mediterranean, present-day Turkey, Southern Spain, and Italy—between the 4th and 15th centuries, when it fell to the Ottoman Turks. As the empire’s official religion was Orthodox Christianity, Byzantine art was largely devotional, Christian art. Perhaps the best known example of Byzantine art is a tenth-century mosaic of the Virgin Mary in the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul that demonstrates the stylized forms, sharp contours, flat fields of color, and gold mosaic the period is known for. Byzantine icons of Mary (icons were traditional wood panels that included portraits or stories of holy figures, meant for veneration) set a benchmark for Christian art far and wide: in the 13th and 14th centuries Italian artists drawing on Byzantine icons, exemplified by Giotto’s Madonna and Child, launched the birth of panel painting, a format that became central to Western art making. Byzantine art also flourished in a wide variety of media including glass mosaic, panel and wall painting, metalwork and enamel, and carved relief in ivory and other precious materials.
