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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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cross with Pearls, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 1200–1400. Materials: Gold and pearls. On view ...
Seal, John Tarchaneiotes, Period: Late Byzantine, 13 th. century. (second half). St. John the Ba...
British Museum
Glass Cameo, Period: Late Byzantine; circa: 13th century A.D. Brick-red, opaque; on the front, th...
Head of a Female Saint, Fresco transferred to panel, Period: Late Byzantine circa: 12th-14th cent...
Constantine Xeros, Sebastos. Period: Late Byzantine, 12th.c. second half. Translation: May you, a...
Double-sided circular jewellery attachment. Christ Pantokrator is depicted on one side and the Vi...
The State Hermitage Museum
Icon of St George, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 13th century. Material: soapstone. Dimensions: ...
British Museum
Relief plaque icon, depicting the Crucifixion with full-length figures of the Virgin on the left ...
Pendant Cross, support for a candelabrum or incense-holder. Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 8th ...
Griffin’s Head Lamp, Period: Early Byzantine, circa 4th-5th century. Purchased from George ...
Key, Materials: Bronze. Made in: Constantinople. Period: Early Byzantine (?). The Benaki Museum o...
Virgin Mary (right) and Emperor Justinian (left), holding between them a model of the church of H...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Four Icons from a Pair of Doors (Panels), possibly part of a Polyptych: John the Theologian and P...
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Annunciation, Manuscript. Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 13th century. Dimensions: Leaf: 20.6...
Veil Embroidered with Gold Thread. Period: Late Byzantine; circa: end of the 13th or beginning of...
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Last Supper, Period: Late Byzantine; circa: 13th century, Place: Nicaea, Modern Turkey. (crea...
British Museum
Icon with St John the Baptist, Icon painted in egg tempera with gold leaf on a wood panel surface...
Fragment of an Icon of the Crucifixion with Mary Magdalen and the Virgin Mary. Material: Steatite...
The Cleveland Art Museum
Virgin and Child, Medium: tempera and gold on wood, Type of art work: Painting, Period: Late Byza...
Reliquary Cross with the Crucifixion, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: Late 12th-early 13th century...