Italy has the richest concentration of Late Antique and medieval mosaics in the world. Although the art style is especially associated with Byzantine...

Antioch mosaics Zliten mosaic Early Byzantine mosaics in the Middle East Late Antique and medieval mosaics in Italy Fabrikant, Geraldine. Mosaic Restoration...

Portability: Islamic and Christian Interchange from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century, pp.324f., in: Hoffman, Eva R. (ed.): Late Antique and Medieval Art of the...

535–536 and the Late Antique Little Ice Age) and a disastrous pandemic (the Plague of Justinian in 541). The effects of these events in the social and political...

Monreale Cathedral Mosaics are the main internal feature of Monreale Cathedral in the city of Palermo, Sicily, Italy; the mosaics cover 6,500 m2. It was...

religious mosaic and decorative secular ceiling mosaics on a round vault, which probably represent the style of contemporary palace decoration. The mosaics of...

floor mosaic Another view of the courtyard and mosaic Archaeological Museum of Delos History of the Cyclades Byzantine mosaics Late Antique and medieval mosaics...

post-antique (or "sub-antique" as Ernst Kitzinger called it) art still being produced in small quantities in Rome and a few other centres in Italy, which...

the image. In the mosaics from the site of Pella, from the 4th century BC, it is possible to see a more evolved form of the art. Mosaics from this site display...

Byzantine mosaics in the Middle East are a group of Christian mosaics created between the 4th and the 8th centuries in ancient Syria, Palestine and Egypt...

The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia is a Late Antique Roman building in Ravenna, Italy, built between 425 and 450. It was added to the World Heritage List...

apse mosaic, 4th century. Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, mosaic in north lunette, c. 440. Treasury of Great Mosque of Damascus, mosaics of external...

role in the Greek State, which was refounded in 1832, as the young nation tried to restore its cultural identity through antique and orthodox-medieval traditions...

Byzantine Icons and Mosaics Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine Anthony Cutler on the economic history of Byzantine mosaics, wall-paintings and icons at...

living in donor portraits of about 500–1100 in Italy. Most surviving ones are of Popes and others in mosaics in Rome, including the Episcopa Theodora head...

mosaics were Orthodox Christians, as the Ostrogoths were predominantly goldsmiths and not mosaic artists. The mosaics in the Neonian Baptistery and Arian...

dome, columns, and mosaics of classical fashion. Two side niches contain the earliest known mosaics of distinctively Christian subjects. In one is represented...

Italy, Malta, and San Marino. Marshall Cavendish. p. 753. WORLD HERITAGE LIST Ravenna No 788 Weitzmann, Kurt, ed., Age of spirituality: late antique and...

appears in the Roman de Troie (1160) by Benoît de Sainte-Maure as a chivalric heroine, and through this became part of the medieval genre roman antique, which...

the walls and floors as well as mosaics on the curving vaults. Of these mosaics, the two archangels Gabriel and Michael are still visible in the spandrels...

The throne is the largest single Late Antique work of art made of ivory, and derives attraction from its simple and proportionate lines along with its...

ISBN 0870993488. (pp. 51–61) Weitzmann, Kurt, ed., Age of spirituality: late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh century, no. 581, 1979, Metropolitan...

Nature of Roman Art and the Art Historical Problem of Style," in Eva R. Hoffman (ed), Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Medieval World, 11–18. Oxford...

German-American historian of late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine art. Kitzinger was born into a well-educated Jewish family in Munich; his father, Wilhelm...

(401–417), and was heavily restored in the 16th century. It is among the oldest Christian mosaics in Rome and one of the most striking mosaics outside of...

Chapel of S. Vittore, with Late Antique mosaics the so‑called "Tomb of Stilicho", assembled from a Roman sarcophagus and other material. a large collection...

surveys in the Aegean. For late-antique Greece, a paradigm of prosperity and transformation is more accurate and useful than a paradigm of decline and fall...

in Rome, Italy, on the Via Nomentana, which runs north-east out of the city. It is a round building with well preserved original layout and mosaics....

and of the Late Antique and Early Medieval works to be seen in Rome. According to John White: "The relatively schematic, linear quality of much late-thirteenth-...

built in a long-populated area, as attested by the presence of a Roman road and a Paleo-Christian mosaic. Construction began in 1131, the apse mosaics were...