Sitemap - 2025 - The Sacred Images Project

The Mysterious Frescoes of Castelseprio

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

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

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

The Eastern Monastic Origins of Italo-Byzantine and Romanesque Art

The greatest story ever told in pictures; iconographic programmes

Byzantium to Italy: The Roots of Italo-Byzantine Art

A Quick Update - calling in sick

West vs East: Iconoclasm, Charlemagne, and the Birth of a New Sacred Art

Chauvet Cave and Our Ancient Iconographic Impulse

Council to Conclave: The Rise of Papal Supremacy and the Roots of the Divide

By the Width of a Wall: How Christendom Survived, and Turned on Itself

God bursts into the world of death; Holy Saturday in the iconographic tradition

Walking with the Saints: A Pilgrimage to the Seven Churches of Rome

Palm Sunday

What happened in Spain? Visigoths vs. Islam

Between Two Fires: Byzantine Art and Theology Before Iconoclasm

Mini-Course Introduction: From Catacombs to Icons

When the World Changed: Sacred Art and the coming of Islam

The Sacred Images Project, 2025 Season Two - maps and links to all the things

Soft comforting tyranny: Technocracy, Christianity and the Age of AI

The mystical art of the desert; the iconography of Egyptian solitude

A Hermit's Lamp: "If you want, you can become all flame."

To venerate is to draw near: monastic art and the desire for communion

On Living as a Narnian in Exile

A story of restoration: Pisa's lost treasures and recovered frescos

The fall of Byzantine Italy: the Papacy turns west

Why this church wants to hurt you; what is Brutalism?

Icons and Empire: The Papacy’s Battle Against the Emperor’s Heresy

The "Crux Gemmata" - how the Cross was depicted in early Christian art

Italo-Byzantine Part 2: How West Met East and Changed Art Forever

Keeping The Sacred Images Project alive: why your support matters

The Eucharistic Vision of San Vitale's Mosaics

I swear on... something or other...

Princess Honoria and Attila the Hun

Torcello: The "lost" island where Venice began

Saturday post: What's Septuagesima?

Buried treasure: the golden hoard of Sutton Hoo

The art of the "Dark Ages"

A brief 1st look at Italo-Byzantine

The redemption of Mr. Collins: sympathy for an unloved man

Byzantium to Constantinople: the birth of the new imperial art form

Constantinople, and the new Christian empire

Everything’s Sci Fi now

The Jesus Prayer: A Spiritual Lifeline for Western Christians

"And the Word was made flesh..." Depicting the Incarnation

The Friday post: "Awake, O sleeper!" Real religion is scary

Imperial Christian Mosaics: Rome and Ravenna

Catacombs to Basilicas: Christianity in the light

Mystery of Sacred Images: Understanding the Visual Language of Faith

Gathering in Secret: Worship and Theology Before Constantine

Santa Pudenziana; ancient Roman house churches you can visit

Where Christian Art Begins; 3rd to 6th centuries

Darkness to Dawn: Cluny and the Rescue of Christendom

Empire of books: The role of manuscripts in the Ottonian Renaissance

A year of sacred art