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View illustrated essays in a related feature on Byzantine art, including a visual essay on the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt.
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The images in this section offer a sampling of works on view in Gallery IV. In order to appreciate the full scope of the exhibition, please visit the Metropolitan in person.
For events and programs related to the exhibition, see the online calendar.
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Mosaic Icon with the Akra Tapeinosis (Utmost Humiliation), or Man of Sorrows. Mosaic icon, Byzantine, late 13th–early 14th century; icon of Saint Catherine (reverse), late 13th–early 14th century; case, late 14th–17th century1. Basilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome (89).
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Mosaic Icon with Christ Pantokrator. Byzantine (Constantinople), 1300–1350; frame and case Hainaut or Burgundy, 1475–76. Parish Church of Saints-Pierre-et-Paul, Chimay, Belgium.
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Portable Mosaic Icon with the Forty Martyrs of Sebasteia. Byzantine (Constantinople), late 13th century. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. (BZ.1947.24).
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Mosaic Icon with Saint Demetrios and Reliquary. Thessalonike, 13th–14th century (ampulla); Constantinople, beginning of the 14th century (mosaic); Italy, mid-15th century (metal revetment). Museo Civico, Sassoferrato, Italy.
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Two Panels with Christ Pantokrator and Theotokos Hodegetria, Surrounded by Scenes from the Lives of Christ and the Virgin. Byzantine (?), 14th century; frame and applied stucco, Italian, 17th century. Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (2721).
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