Surrounded by mountains in the heart of the Balkans, Sofia’s strategic location made it a focus for invasion over the centuries.

In our modern world, moving at such an ultra-fast pace, it can feel like our cities are getting stripped of their history and ...

The so-called “stateless people,” who originally migrated from northern India to Europe in the 14th century, are today ...

1 To this day, the Greek Orthodox Christians venerate a wellspring of Nazareth ... in her hand is dated back to the seventh century (Milano, ivory cover). The Byzantine mosaic portraying the ...

From Orthodox iconography at the Byzantine and Christian Museum to prehistoric sculpture juxtaposed with contemporary art at the Museum of Cycladic Art and 20th-century Greek painting and folk art ...

Some prominent women of the Byzantine Empire ended up as saints, scholars, patrons of both art and religion ... offering them significant power within local communities. Within the Orthodox Christian ...

Architects seek to meld the spiritual and the practical in places of worship, which have been marvels for thousands of years—works of art in a range ... back to 1425, the Byzantine-Cycladic ...

This course examines the art and architecture of the Byzantine empire from its sources in Late Antique Rome to its fall in 1453 as well as its influence in the Orthodox Christian art of Russia, Greece ...

Built high and strong to deflect cannon fire, the Fortezza still houses a series of caves, as well as the remains of a Turkish mosque and a Greek Orthodox chapel. The area around the Fortezza ...

The first building to include a fully pendentive dome, Hagia Sophia is a paragon of Byzantine architecture ... genius behind the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, a saucer-shaped modernist ...

When French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati fastened the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres onto Demna Gvasalia’s torn T-shirt, ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.