3 articles tagged with "Byzantine art"
El Greco moved from Crete to Venice to Toledo and invented a style unlike anything else in Western art. Discover the Greek-born master who became Spain's most visionary painter.
Explore Byzantine art's extraordinary gold mosaics, sacred icons, and the theological debates they sparked. From Ravenna to Hagia Sophia, discover a thousand years of sacred art that shaped Western and Eastern visual culture.
Explore the history of mosaic from Roman floors to Byzantine gold-glass icons and Gaudí's buildings. Learn how tesserae are cut and set, and how to start your own mosaic practice with modern materials.