Archive - The Sacred Images Project

From Roman Martyrs to Irish Monks to Viking Flames

Part 1 of a Short Biographical History of Early British Christianity

Aug 6 •

The Romanesque Gaze

Symbol, Style and the Sacred Face in the 11th century

Aug 2 •

July 2025

The Forgotten Desert Monks Who Built the Foundations of the West

Syrian hermits in Umbrian caves; pre-Benedictine monastics in Italy shaped the ideas of Western spiritual life

Jul 31 •

Math and Mysticism: Sacred Art Can Change the Way You Think About God, Man and the Cosmos

How medievals mapped the cosmos on the human face

Jul 24 •

The Carolingian Revolution meets the Byzantine South

How did we get to Romanesque?

Jul 22 •

Why subscribe? To join in on a work of restoration

From the Sacred Images Project to the Ars Sacra Association

Jul 19 •

What is the Most Ancient of All Illuminated Bible Manuscripts?

Royal Pages: the Mystery and Meaning of the Purple Gospels

Jul 17 •

Two Ravennas: Arian and Catholic

Two sets of 6th-century mosaics and what they tell us about theology, empire, and art.

Jul 11 •

The Memory of Southern Italy's Greek Colonies

Why is Sicily so... Byzantine?

Jul 9 •

The Bike, the Work and the Road Ahead

Many thanks - and Magna Graecia next week!

Jul 5 •

476 and All That: The Fall of Rome, Revisited

Wait… Did we forget the fall of Rome?

Jul 1 •

June 2025

The Sixth Seal, the last persecution: Reading Beatus of Liébana

A Visigoth monk tells us about the end of the world

Jun 28 •

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