Fol. 67v from Passages d'outremer de Sébastien Mamerot.
June 10, 1098, Peter Bartholomew, a priest from Southern France, claimed that Saint Andrew had come to him in visions and told him where to find the Holy Lance within the city. Despite a relic…
The “Paris Gregory” was made for Emperor Basil I between 879 and 883, commissioned by the Patriarch Photios I in Constantinople. It contains the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus. This illustration shows, at top “the dream of Constantine”, “the battle…
This icon is made up of several previously unrelated elements of Byzantine artistry, all set within a Venetian filigree panel. The central lapis medallion represents one of just a few examples of Byzantine hard-stone that has been inlaid with gold.…
Made in Constantinople in the late 11th to early 12th century, this icon first appears in the inventory of San Marco in 1325, but most likely came to Venice after the sack of Constantinople in 1204. The figure of Michael is identified by the roundels…
The Image of Edessa or the Mandylion (see image top right), is a relic of a cloth onto which the face of Christ had been imprinted. Not to be confused with other, similar, relics (such as the Veronica veil or the Shroud of Turin), the story of the…
Looted from the Monastery of Stoudios in Constantinople, this icon of the Virgin was brought to Venice by Enrico Dandolo. This transfer was seen by some Venetians as representative of the transference of God's favor and blessing from Constantinople…
