The Byzantine Empire: Art and Spirituality
Map of Justinian's "Reconquest"
The Court of Emperor Justinian
(Mosaics from Ravenna, Italy, 540s)
Empress Theodora & Her Retinue
The Great Church of Hagia Sophia, in present-day Istanbul, Turkey
For many more images, check the following two websites devoted exclusively to the Great Church:
Hagia
Sophia (2)
(Includes brief survey of the church's history)
Interior of Hagia Sophia
(Notice the play of light created by the placement of 42 windows at the base of the enormous dome!)
Icon-worship: permissible veneration, or idolatry?
Iconoclasts Whitewash and Image of Christ
Political Intrigue & Persecution: Iconoclast Emperor Theophilus Executes Conspirators
All Saints Icon
