Byzantine painting was returning to the form and to the rational, which could be expressed in paintings of a smaller size, as on the strictly limited surface of an icon.

Inspired by Greek mythology, one mural painter describes his works as contemporary Byzantine painting, balancing realism and abstraction. Alix Norman meets him Fikos is halfway up a wall in Athens.

Modern painting, Far Eastern art, Hellenistic, Byzantine, and Greek popular painting have been combined and sifted by a fine intellect that imposes its own laws on reality: a balance among the ...

When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...

St. Mary Magdalene (Byzantine School), painted at the monastery of Treitza, near Moscow, (painting) Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery. Object Details artist Unknown ... Pre-1877 ...

Nearby, we see examples of the art that influenced Duccio, including a Byzantine Virgin and Child (c.1260-1270), representative of the "Greek style" of many paintings in Italy before his time.

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.