Byzantine gold

A gold ring with broad flat-section hoop and beaded wire borders, openwork scrolled leaves and tendrils around a central Maltese cross, the bezel an applied rectangular plaque with openwork foliage border, central cell with inset emerald cloison.

Having studied mosaics all over the world for many years I was delighted to receive a commission last year to create a mosaic for a church in Wales. I completed the illustrated mosaic of Christ Pan…

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A Byzantine Gold, Sapphire, Chalcedony, Amethyst, and Emerald Necklace Circa 6th-7th Century A.D. Length excluding chain 10 1/4 inches (26.04 cm). Property from a New York Private Collection

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A flat-section gold band with median openwork section depicting facing pairs of doves flanking a vessel with foliage; the center a later substantial square frame with scrolled wire fill, cross and...

Culture at the Crossroads @ Toledo Art Museum – Detroit Art Review

Few products of human artistry seem as insistently concerned with self-representation as jewelry. In Georg Simmel’s classic formulation, articles of personal adornment work to enhance an individual’s social persona by magnifying their Ausstrahlung . While medieval Christian devotional jewels were well-equipped to operate in this manner, their true significance lay elsewhere. Objects such as pectoral crosses, reliquary rings, rosaries, and prayer nuts were designed not so much to mediate…

Byzantine Bracelet most probably made in Rome | ca. 400 | Gold

A PAIR OF BYZANTINE GOLD EARRINGS, CIRCA 7TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.

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Byzantine & Post Byzantine Jewelry - A short history- CultureTaste BlackBoard - Read or submit an article

CIRCA LATE 6TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.

This body chains of linked medallions is the largest item of jewellery to survive from the Byzantine Empire. It would have been worn draped over the shoulders...