Category: Art
The Mysterious Mary Magdalene.
Mary Magdalene is to simply put it an enigma. She is one of the more fascinating characters or persons from […]
Alexandre Cabanel’s The Birth of Venus (1863).
Inspiration often comes from my daily grind. I’ve said it many times before and today is no different. I bought […]
Degas: A New Vision at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Last week, I made my way to the National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne, to experience possibly a once in […]
The Codex Sinaiticus.
The invention of the codex, a series of pages bound down one side, not only replaced the scroll, but created […]
Gold hyperpyron of Alexius I.
It is an astonishing feat to imagine that the gold coin created by Constantine in the early fourth century, known […]
Portrait of an Emperor: John VIII Palaiologos.
An Italian Renaissance painter from Florence, by the name of Benozzo Gozzoli, was commissioned to paint a three-walled cycle of […]
Masterclass in Byzantine Mosaics (Part 2)
A good number of Byzantine craftsmen, painters and artists are unknown or anonymous. Yet, they have left us with a […]
Masterclass in Byzantine Mosaics (Part 1)
Who would have thought that a tiny small square piece of stone, glass or pottery called tesserae would have such […]
The Nativity of Jesus in Byzantine art.
There is no doubt that the Christ Pantocrator, Marian art and the passion of Christ are some of the most […]
The Peacock, in all its splendour and glory.
The peacock has a long history of being worshipped as a pagan deity or used as a symbol by royalty […]
