Byzantine-style mosaic of Christ Pantokrator in the Cefalù Cathedral, erected by Roger II in 1131. Credit: Gun Powder Ma / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 How many of us know that Italy, the epicenter of ...

“We are closer to the Quattrocento mind,” he wrote, “than to the Byzantine, for instance”. Fifty years later, Byzantium and the art it produced are still misunderstood, when not unknow ...