• Middle Ages (through ArtLex)
• European and Byzantine Art in the Middle Ages: Special Topics (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
  • Barbarians and Romans
  • The Art of the Book in the Middle Ages
  • Byzantium (c. 330 - 1453 A.D.)
  • Icons and Iconoclasm
  • Nudity and Classical Themes in Byzantine Art
  • African Christianity in Ethiopia
  • The Age of Justinian I (527–565 A.D.)
  • Animals in Medieval Art
  • The Art of the Book in the Middle Ages
  • Byzantine Ivories
  • Hagia Sophia, 532–37
  • Jewish Art in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium
  • List of Rulers: Byzantium
  • Popular Religion: Magical Uses of Imagery in Byzantine Art
  • The Religious Relationship between Byzantium and the West
• Christian and Byzantine Art (16 selected works) in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
• Medieval Art in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

EARLY CHRISTIAN
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• Early Christian Art, plus pages 2, 3, 4, 5 (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
• Medieval and Early Christian Art in the collection of the Museum of Antiquities, University of Saskatchewan)
• Paleochristian (part of the site Periods in Art History, Anne S. de Luengas, ITESM Campus Tampico)
• Early Christian Architecture (part of a History of Western Architecture, through the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office), with a link to
  • Sant' Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna
• The Christian Catacombs at Rome, including a detailed description of
  • The Catacombs of Saint Callixtus
    • Introduction
    • The Above-Ground Area
    • The Underground Cemetery
    • The Crypt of the Popes
    • The Crypt of Saint Cecilia
    • The Galleries
    • The Cubicles of the Sacraments
    • The Area Called Saint Miltiades
    • The Area of SS. Gaius and Eusebius
    • The Western Area
    • The Liberian Area
    • The Crypts of Lucina
    • Farewell
• Le Catacombe Cristiane (through the Vatican)
• The Martyrium Basilica and the Holy Sepulchre in the Fourth Century

BYZANTINE
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• Byzantine Art (through ArtLex)
• Byzantine Art (Dr. Rozmeri Basic, University of Oklahoma), with links to
  • Early Christian Art
  • Sixth Century Art
  • Monuments of Ravenna
  • Iconoclasm (726-843)
  • The Macedonian Dynasty (843-1025)
  • The Comnene Dynasty (1025-1204)
  • Twelth Century Art in Italy
  • The Latin Occupation of Constantinople (1204-1261)
  • The Palaiologan Period (1261-1453)
• Early Byzantine Empire (7 - 11th c. A.D.) (through Images from History)
• Gallery: Byzantine Images (Paul Halsall, Fordham University)
• Byzantine Art, plus pages 2, 3, 4, 5 (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
• Byzantium (part of the site Periods in Art History, Anne S. de Luengas, ITESM Campus Tampico)
• Byzantine Collection: Selected Images, Dumbarton Oaks, with links to
  • Late Roman and Early Byzantine Art, from the Second Century to the Sixth Century
  • Early Byzantine Art, from the Age of Justinian (527-565) to the Beginning of Iconoclasm (726)
  • Early Byzantine Silver
  • Textiles of the Early Byzantine Period
  • Middle Byzantine Art
  • Late Byzantine Art
• Byzantine Architecture (part of a History of Western Architecture, through the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office), with a link to
  • San Vitale, Ravenna
• Byzantine Art (in The George Ortiz Collection)
• Byzantium in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
• The Glory of Byzantium, exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with links to:
  • Works of Art
  • Themes in Byzantine Art
  • A Brief Summary of Byzantine History
  • Byzantium Through The Ages: A Timeline
  • Glossary of Terms
• Hagia Sophia - computer model built by Marcus Hurley (part of the Byzantine Architecture Project, Princeton)
• Saint Catherine Monastery, Mount Sinai (part of the Sinai Egypt website), with links to
  • Monastery Highlights
  • Art of the Monastery
  • Mount Sinai
• Mount Athos: The Holy Mountain, with links to
  • The Art of Mount Athos
  • The Architecture of Mount Athos
  • The Monasteries
• Icon Painting (Alexander Boguslawski)
  • Introduction
    • Historical Introduction
    • Understanding Icons
    • Icon Restoration
    • Byzantine Icons
    • Iconostasis
    • Parsunas
  • Painters
    • Theophanes the Greek
    • Andrei Rublev
    • Dionisii
    • Simon Ushakov
  • Schools
    • Kiev School
    • Novgorod School
    • Moscow School
    • Pskov School
  • Subjects
    • The Annunciation
    • The (Arch)angel with the Golden Hair
    • The Assumption (Dormition) of the Virgin
    • Basil and George
    • The Battle between the Novgorodians and the Suzdalians
    • Christ Pantokrator
    • The Crucifixion
    • The Dormition (Assumption) of the Virgin
    • The Entombment
    • The Fiery Ascension of Elijah the Prophet
    • St. George and the Dragon
    • John the Baptist (Byzantine)
    • John the Baptist (Moscovite)
    • The Nativity
    • St. Nicholas (Byzantine)
    • The Presentation in the Temple
    • The Savior
    • The Savior with the Golden Hair
    • The Transfiguration
    • The Trinity
    • The Virgin from the Deesis Row
    • The Virgin of Vladimir
    • The Virgin Orans Great Panagia
• Byzantine Art (through Olga's Gallery)
  • Dionysius (Russian, c. 1440 - between 1502-1508)
  • Andrei Rublev (Russian, c. 1360/70-1430)
  • Russian Icons (XI-XVI century)
  • Theophanes the Greek (Russian / Greek, XIV-XV)
• Icons in the Pinacoteca Vaticana (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
  • Room XVIII. 15th-19th cent. (icons)
• Icon Collection in the Zavicajni muzej Herceg-Novi (The Regional Museum of Herceg-Novi), Serbia and Montenegro
• Icon Gallery, St. Clement, Ohrid, Macedonia (through Ohrid at your fingertips)
• Eastern Orthodox Christian Icons, some images (through The MIT Orthodox Christian Fellowship)
• Russian Icons: Index (81 examples dating from the 12th to the 18th centuries)
• Russian Icons (through Christus Rex)

• JEWISH
  • Dura-Europos synagogue
• EARLY CHRISTIAN
  • Christian catacombs
  • Early Christian art
    • Ivory
    • Mosaics
    • Sarcophagi
      • Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
      • Sarcophagi in Italy
      • Sarcophagi in France
    • Silver
  • Early Christian churches
    • St. Peter's Basilica, Rome
    • Basilica of San Martino ai Monti, Rome
    • Santa Sabina, Rome
    • Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
    • Santa Costanza, Rome
    • Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna
    • Arian Baptistry, Ravenna
    • Baptistry of the Orthodox, Ravenna
    • Lateran Baptistry, Rome
  • Early Christian manuscripts
    • Vienna Genesis (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod. theol. gr.31)
    • Ashburnham Pentateuch (Paris, Bibl. Nat. MS nouv. acq. lat. 2334)
    • Sinope Gospels (Paris, Bibl. Nat., MS gr. 1286, also known as the Codex Sinopensis)
    • Syriac Bible of Paris Paris, Bibl. Nat. MS syr. 341)
    • Rabula Gospels (Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana, cod. Plut. I, 560)
    • Augustine Gospels (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Lib. MS. 286)
    • Cotton Genesis (London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho B VI)
    • Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, MS Royal 1. D. V-VIII)
    • British Library, Harley 1775
    • Codex Argenteus ("Silver Bible")
    • Codex Brixianus (Brescia, Biblioteca Civica Queriniana, s.n.)
    • Quedlinburg Itala (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Cod. theol. lat. fol. 485)
    • Rossano Gospels (Cathedral of Rossano, Calabria, Italy, Archepiscopal Treasury, s.n.)
  • Christian Symbols
• BYZANTINE
  • Byzantine Art
  • Byzantine Architecture
    • Byzantine Architecture in Italy
      • San Vitale, Ravenna
      • Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna
      • Paltine Chapel, Palermo
      • San Marco, Venice and Interior
    • Byzantine Architecture in Turkey
      • Hagia Sophia. Istanbul
        • Exterior
        • Interior
        • Plans
      • Chora, Istanbul
        • Mosaics
        • Paintings
        • Plans
      • Hippodrome of Constantinople
      • Walls of Constantinople
      • Plans of Byzantine buildings in Constantinople
    • Byzantine Architecture in Greece
      • Monastery of Hosios Loukas, and Mosaics
      • Mosaics in Daphni
      • Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki
    • Santa Sophia Cathedral, Kiev
  • Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
  • Byzantine ivory
    • Consular diptychs
    • Harbaville Triptych
  • Byzantine illuminated manuscripts
    • Paris Psalter (Paris, Bibli. Nat., MS Grec 139)
    • Bibliothèque Nationale MS Gr. 510
    • British Library, Additional MS 5111
    • Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Cod. Gr. 1
    • Naples Dioscurides (Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, Cod. Gr. 1)
    • Vienna Dioscurides (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. med. gr. 1.)
    • Skylitzis Chronicle
  • Byzantine paintings
    • Paintings in St. Panteleimon's Church, Nerezi
    • Byzantine frescoes in Italy
    • Holy Trinity Icon
    • Maniera greca
    • Icons
  • Byzantine sculptures
  • Byzantine Mosaics
    • Istanbul
    • Venice
    • Ravenna
    • Rome
    • Palermo
    • Monreale
  • Byzantine jewelry
  • Coins of the Byzantine Empire
  • Byzantine Emperors
  • Byzantine Empresses
  • Maps of the Byzantine Empire
  • Maps of Byzantine Constantinople