The icons of the Theotokos are integral to the life of the Byzantine Church. Their very position in the apse and on the iconostasis indicated definite theological meaning. An icon is not meant to be a ...

Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

Look for these features in ancient Byzantine icons, mentioning for example “the Mother of God, Salus Romani,” an 8th century icon found at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. 4 Orthodoxy does believe, as do ...

including Byzantine icons. According Maximilien Durand, who will oversee the new department's curation, the permanent ...