Oval cameo of glass paste, with a representation of St Dimitrios. Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: 12th c. Materials: glass. Made in: Constantinople. 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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Cleveland Art Museum of Art
Calyx (Chalice), Period: Middle Byzantine, 900s-1000s. Blood jasper (heliotrope) with gilt-copper...
Cleveland Art Museum of Art
Enkolpion with the Crucifixion (front) and Saints Theodore and George (back), silver gilt and clo...
Pendant Icon with the Virgin “Dexiokratousa” and Frame with Winged Bull of Saint Luke...
British Museum
Textile Fragment, Materials: silk and cotton. Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 8thc-9thc. Rectang...
British Museum
Cameo; red glass; quadrangular; Period: 13thC, Late Byzantine. Figure of St John the Baptist in r...
British Museum
The Raising of Lazarus, Panel; ivory; Christ with cruciferous nimbus relocate to right with hand ...
Pendant Cross, support for a candelabrum or incense-holder. Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 8th ...
Hexagonal jug with Christian symbols, Material: Glass, mold-blown. Place of Manufacture: Jerusale...
Double Costmetic Tube (balsamarium). Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 5th–6th century A.D. Dimensi...
Chain with Pendant Cross, Materials: gold, glass, pearl, garnet, and sapphire. Period: Early Byza...
Crescent-Shaped Earring, Materials: Gold filigree with cloisonné enamel. Period: Middle Byzantine...
Button, Early Byzantine circa: 500s. Materials: Rock crystal with a garnet mounted in a gold gran...
Ivory Plaque with Enthroned Mother of God, (“The Stroganoff Ivory”), Period: Middle B...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis, Period: Early Byzantine circa: 500–5...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Icon with the Koimesis, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: late 900s. Made in probably Constantinop...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Icon with the Crucifixion, Period: Middle Byzantine circa: mid-10th century, Made in probably Con...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
This medallion of Christ is from a group of twelve that once surrounded an icon of the archangel ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medallion with Saint Peter from an Icon Frame, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: ca. 1100, Made in...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: early 9th century, Made in Const...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: ca. 1100, Made ...