Certain artistic traditions that originated in the Byzantine Empire, particularly in regard to icon painting and church architecture, are maintained in Greece, Cyprus, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia and other Eastern Orthodox countries to the present day.

2022年7月3日 · Although the Byzantine Empire ended many centuries ago, the religious iconography of Byzantine art persists. Examples appear in the Orthodox churches of places like Greece and Russia, and icon painters continue to use these same poses today.

2022年10月14日 · In Byzantine churches separating the Holy Bema from the space of the naos is the templon (iconostasis), a screen decorated with icons. The Painter’s Manual does not refer to the whole arrangement of icons on the templon which follow a traditional iconographic program of its own which will not be discussed here.

2001年10月1日 · Very few early Byzantine icons survived the Iconoclastic period; notable exceptions are woven icons, painted icons preserved at the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, Egypt, and the miniature icons found on Byzantine coins, including those of Justinian II (r. 685–95; 705–11).

2012年3月13日 · The exhibition is divided into five sections: The reception of Byzantine art by European and Greek artists, its incorporation into Greece’s national cultural heritage by the artists of the Thirties Generation, the contribution of conservators to preserving Byzantine monuments, the role played by copies both in familiarizing a wider audience ...

Let us consider the examples of three Byzantine churches, whose mosaics offer visual evidence of the Iconoclastic Controversy and subsequent Triumph of Orthodoxy: Hagia Eirene in Constantinople (Istanbul), the Dormition in Nicaea (İznik, Turkey), and Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (Istanbul).

2024年4月7日 · The tradition of icon painting, a distinctive feature of the Byzantine style, began to flourish following the establishment of Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire. After the formal split of the empire, Constantinople emerged as the heart of the Byzantine Empire, becoming a potent centre for religious art.

In the 50’s and 60’s of the 19th century the foundations were laid of a new style of Greek Church painting. Тhe founder was a professor of the Athenian school of fine arts: German artist Ludwig Trich who showed interest in Byzantine painting.

Orthodox religious painting took a decisive turn in the direction of Western-style, three-dimensional painting, which was finally accepted as the official form of artistic expression of the Greek Church.

16 The majority of extant Byzantine frescoes are painted in this way, and there are many examples to be seen of this technique: The Church of the Protaton, Mount Athos, Greece (late 13th C), the Church of Saint Nicholas Orphanos, Thessalonica, Greece (Early 14th C); the Church of the Savior in Chora (Kariye Djami) in Constantinople (14th C), to ...