If someone tells you that art post Constantine declined - show them this.
Byzantine silver plate from the reign of Emperor Heraclius (610-641). It depicts a biblical scene: the battle between David and Goliath.
Masterpiece
A Igreja Ortodoxa é evangélica, mas não protestante. É ortodoxa, mas não judaica. É católica, mas não romana. Não é não denominacional – é pré-denominacional. Ela tem crido, ensinado, preservado, defendido e morrido pela Fé dos Apóstolos desde o Dia de Pentecostes, há 2000 anos.
Rare Icon of the Pure Soul
North Russia, C17th
The Pure Soul is depicted on the left as the Virgin wearing a crown adorned with flowers. To her right is a lion (anger), a serpent (sin) and on the right, squatting naked in a cave, is the devil, symbolising the sinful soul.
Saint Panteleimon - Nerezi (nearby Skopje) - This twelfth century church built by the Constantinopolitan Angelos family contains the most important Byzantine frescoes of the twelfth-century. A thread on this hidden gem in North-Macedonia 🧵 🧵 🧵 (please share!)
Militant Christ from the Archbishop’s Chapel (Museo Arcivescovile) in Ravenna
6th-century mosaic with Christ dressed a military general, holding a cross, with a lion and snake under his feet. The Latin inscription from John 14:6 reads:
Ego sum via veritas et vita
I am the Way,…
If you didn’t know, The Constitutio Antoniniana from 212 AD permitted valid mixed marriages across the Pagan Roman Empire.
The Theodosian Code during the Christian era in 370-380 AD prescribed death for Romans who married “barbarian” foreigners. journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor…
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