Byzantine art
Videos
Byzantine art comprises the body of artistic products of the Byzantine Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged from the de
One of the most famous of the surviving Byzantine mosaics of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople – the image of Christ Pantocrator on the walls of the upper southern gallery, Christ being flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist; c. 1261; 4.08 x 4.2 m
Icon of the enthroned Virgin and Child with saints and angels, 6th century, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai
The Arab Saint Arethas depicted in traditional Byzantine style (10th century)
Frescoes in Nerezi near Skopje (1164), with their unique blend of high tragedy, gentle humanity, and homespun realism, anticipate the approach of Giotto and other proto-Renaissance Italian artists.
Giotto
Videos
Giotto di Bondone, known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's cont
Byzantine art
…Trecento; the traditional and still influential narrative of Vasari and others has the story of Western painting begin as a breakaway by Cimabue and then Giotto from the shackles of the Byzantine tradition. In general, Byzantine artistic influence on Europe was in steep decline by the 14th century if not earlier…
Portrait by Andrea di Bonaiuto, c. 1366
One of the Legend of St. Francis frescoes at Assisi, the authorship of which is disputed
Drawing of Giotto's lost mosaic Navicella, made about 1420 and once owned by Vasari
Full-size copy in oils of Giotto's lost mosaic Navicella, made in 1628