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Military saints in Byzantine capitals.
During the Byzantine era the huge variety of different capitals shows us how imaginative their creators were. There have survived...
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Byzantine corals
6th century Byzantine miniature of corals from the Byzantine manuscript of Dioscorides of Vienna. At the bottom right of the image is a...
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Αrchangel Michael in Hagia Sophia
Perhaps the most beautiful of all the exhibits in the treasury of St. Mark is the relief image of the Archangel Michael. It was created...
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A Byzantine necklace
Eastern Roman gold necklace with glass and gold beads from the 12th-13th centuries AD with a gold cross. It is a gold cross pendant...
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