This Web feature was produced in conjunction with the exhibition "Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557)" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 23–July 4, 2004. The object entries are taken from the catalogue of the same name by Helen C. Evans, et al, 2004.


Project Director
Helen C. Evans
Curator, Medieval Art and The Cloisters

Content Coordinator
Sarah T. Brooks
Research Associate
Medieval Art and The Cloisters

Production Coordinator
Teresa M. Russo
Associate Museum Educator
Education

Designer
Sung Kevin Park

Essay Authors

Introduction
Helen C. Evans

Peoples of the Byzantine Sphere
Sarah T. Brooks

Miniature Mosaic Icons
Edmund Ryder

Vestments and Textiles
Edmund Ryder

Liturgical Objects
Edmund Ryder

Manuscripts and Frescoes
Annie Labatt and Sarah T. Brooks

Painted Icons
Sarah T. Brooks

Byzantium and the Islamic World
Thelma Thomas and Helen C. Evans

Byzantium and the West
Brandie Ratliff and Charlotte Appleyard

The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine
Brandie Ratliff

Glossary
Edmund Ryder

Catalogue entry authors (for individual attribution, please refer to the initials at the end of each catalogue entry)

Peoples of the Byzantine Sphere
Jennifer Ball
Annemarie Weyl Carr
Helen C. Evans
Christian Förstel
John Lowden
Scot McKendrick
John Nesbitt
Dragomir Todorovic

Liturgical Objects
Anastasios Antonaras
Anna Ballian
Mirjana Sakota

Manuscripts and Frescoes
Jannic Durand
Robert S. Nelson
Georgi R. Parpulov
Aysin Yoltar-Yildirim

Manuscripts and Frescoes
Pete Dandridge
Arne Effenberger
Helen C. Evans
Yuri Piatnitsky

Vestments and Textiles
Jennifer Ball
Christian Förstel
Slobodan Mileusnic
Inna I. Vishnevskaia
Warren T. Woodfin

Painted Icons
Annemarie Weyl Carr
John Cotsonis
Jaroslav Folda
Milco Georgievski
Evalina K. Guseva
Julia Komarova

The Byzantine Sphere and the Islamic World
Alisa LaGamma
Thelma K. Thomas
Anna Ballian
Stefano Carboni
Stephen K. Scher
Aysin Yoltar-Yildirim
Michiel C. Plomp
Nadine M. Orenstein

The Byzantine Sphere and the West
Maryan M. Ainsworth
Barbara Drake Boehm
Stefano Carboni
Helen C. Evans
Maria Georgopoulou
Amy Neff
Stephen K. Scher

The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine
Barbara Drake Boehm
Helen C. Evans
Jaroslav Folda
Timothy B. Husband
Vasileios N. Marinis
Nancy Patterson Sevcenko

Proofreader
Gillian Belnap

Camera
Vic Losick

Video Editor
Jessica Glass

Video to Web Processing
Paul Caro


With the assistance of Michael Norris, Merantine Hens, Gary Vellenzer, and the staffs of Educational Media and the Web Group.

Illustrated at left:The Four Gospels, Saint Mark, folio 103v; Byzantine (Constantinople), ca. 1300; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (Ms. 65)

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