Byzantine Art

The most famous of the surviving Byzantine mosaics of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople the image of Christ Pantocrator on the walls of the upper southern gallery. The mosaics were made in the 12th century. 

Mosaic from the church of Hagios Demetrios in Thessaloniki, late 7th or early 8th century, showing St. Demetrios with donors.

Miniatures of the 6th-century Rabula Gospel display the more abstract and symbolic nature of Byzantine art.

The Annunciation from Ohrid, one of the most admired icons of the Paleologan Mannerism, bears comparison with the finest contemporary works by Italian artists.

Miniatures of the 6th-century Rabula Gospeldisplay the more abstract and symbolic nature of Byzantine art.

Frescoes in Nerezi (1164)

Helios in his chariot, surrounded by symbols of the months and of the zodiac.  The "Handy Tables" of  Ptolemy, produced during the reign of Constantine V (1291)

Mosaic from San Vitale in Ravenna, showing the Emperor Justinian and Bishop Maximian of Ravenna surrounded by clerics and soldiers.

St Mark's Basilic in Venice, where imported Byzantine mosaicists were succeeded by Italians they had trained.