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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Tunic from Palermo; Blue and red velvet, gold embroidery, gold appliqués with cloisonné enamel an...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Base for a Cross, Period: Middle Byzantine circa: 11th century. Made in Constantinople. Materials...
Brick with a Dog’s Paw Print. Period: Middle Byzantine; Findspot: Istanbul. Material: ceram...
Button, Early Byzantine circa: 500s. Materials: Rock crystal with a garnet mounted in a gold gran...
Cleveland Art Museum of Art
Calyx (Chalice), Period: Middle Byzantine, 900s-1000s. Blood jasper (heliotrope) with gilt-copper...
British Museum
Cameo; red glass; quadrangular; Period: 13thC, Late Byzantine. Figure of St John the Baptist in r...
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...
The Cleveland Art Museum
Crescent-Shaped Pendant, Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: 11th century. Materials: gold filigree ...
Cross of Romanos II and Basil II, Period: Middle Byzantine, Date: 960-963. Materials: silver and ...
Pectoral cross with busts of Jesus Christ and saints, silver-gilt. On the reverse, the engraved i...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cross, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 1100, Made in Constantinople, Materials: Cloisonne enamel...
The State Hermitage Museum
Diptych Showing Twelve Festive Scenes, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: Late 10th century. Materi...
Dish of brown, fine-grained clay covered with a white slip. Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: Late...
Double Costmetic Tube (balsamarium). Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 5th–6th century A.D. Dimensi...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Double-Sided Pendant Icon with the Virgin and Christ Pantokrator, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa...
The Cleveland Art Museum
Earring with Openwork, Period: Middle Byzantine circa: 7th-9th Century. Materials: gold with a ro...
British Museum
Earring; Period: Middle Byzantine; 11thc.-12thc. Material: gold. British Museum is closed 24, 25...
Enkolpion Reliquary Cross with Crucifixion and the Virgin, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa 10th t...
Cleveland Art Museum of Art
Enkolpion with the Crucifixion (front) and Saints Theodore and George (back), silver gilt and clo...