Small icon of St Nicholas. Period: Late Byzantine; circa: First half of 13th century. Materials: bronze. The Benaki Museum of Greek Culture is housed in one of the most beautiful neoclassical-style buildings in Athens, near the National Garden and the Hellenic Parliament. It was converted into a museum in order to shelter the collections of Antonis Benakis and was donated to the Greek nation by himself and his three sisters, Alexandra, Penelope and Argine. Following its most recent refurbishment (1989–2000), the building houses a unique exhibition on Greek culture arranged diachronically from prehistory to the 20th century.
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Icon of Depicting Virgin Mary Thornousa, which was probably part of a wider composition depicting...
Veil Embroidered with Gold Thread. Period: Late Byzantine; circa: end of the 13th or beginning of...
The State Hermitage Museum
Icon of St George, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 13th century. Material: soapstone. Dimensions: ...
British Museum
Brooch, in the form of a dove. Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 6thc-7thc. Material: Bronze . Brit...
Benediction Cross, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 1200s-1400s. Materials: black schist, gold, sil...
The Met Fifth Avenue
Steelyard Weight with a Bust of a Byzantine Empress and a Hook. This Byzantine steelyard weight d...
Fragment of an Icon of the Crucifixion with Mary Magdalen and the Virgin Mary. Material: Steatite...
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Saint Luke, Manuscript, Period: Late Byzantine circa: early 13th century. Place: Nicomedia (Moder...
British Museum
Relief plaque icon, depicting the Crucifixion with full-length figures of the Virgin on the left ...
Rooster Lamp, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 5th-6th century. Purchased from Fouad Alouf (dealer...
Virgin Mary (right) and Emperor Justinian (left), holding between them a model of the church of H...
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Saint John the Evangelist Dictating, Manuscript, Period: Late Byzantine; circa: 1200 to 1225. Pla...
Lamp and Stand, Period: Early Byzantine, circa 400s. 34.8 x 13.5 cm (13 11/16 x 5 5/16 in.) Mater...
British Museum
Glass Cameo, Period: Late Byzantine; circa: 13th century A.D. Brick-red, opaque; on the front, th...
British Museum
Octagonal intaglio, Period: Late Byzantine; circa: 14thc. Made in: Constantinople. Dimensions: He...
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Last Supper, Period: Late Byzantine; circa: 13th century, Place: Nicaea, Modern Turkey. (crea...
British Museum
Cameo; red glass; quadrangular; Period: 13thC, Late Byzantine. Figure of St John the Baptist in r...
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Descent into Limbo, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 13th century. Dimensions: Leaf: 20.6 × 14....
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cross with Pearls, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 1200–1400. Materials: Gold and pearls. On view ...
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Annunciation, Manuscript. Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 13th century. Dimensions: Leaf: 20.6...