Archive - The Sacred Images Project

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 •

Kingdom of Asturias; the Christian Art of Early Medieval Spain

Asturian Pre-Romanesque, a unique Christian artform

Jun 26 •

The Only Way Out Is Through: Two Early Medieval Last Judgments

Torcello and Formis: Walking inside Christian Eschatology

Jun 23 •

The "thirst for God" that accidentally built a civilisation

A Benedictine response: what is it for?

Jun 21 •

The Mysterious Frescoes of Castelseprio

A lost ancient treasure of Christian Art

Jun 18 •

Putting together the big, complex picture: Italo-Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque

Sacred art in the West was never a straight line

Jun 16 •

Icons Through the Ages: The Changing Face of Byzantine Sacred Art

It's not a single monolithic style

Jun 11 •

Off Topic: What is "Modernia" and why is it Bad?

Bentham's World: How we all became Utilitarians

Jun 6 •

The Eastern Monastic Origins of Italo-Byzantine and Romanesque Art

Refugees from Iconoclasm and Islam brought the art of the east into the west

Jun 4 •

The greatest story ever told in pictures; iconographic programmes

Why did churches have a standard ordering of frescos and icons?

Jun 2 •

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