Daphni’s mosaic designers worked at a time when Byzantine artists ... warms the usually remote hieratic figures of the Nativity, and the manger animals, reduced to the size of toys, are almost ...

At the Church of the Nativity, three rival Christian ... in A.D. 529—though parts of the original mosaic floor remain. Soon after, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian rebuilt the church in a bigger ...

A late fourth- or early fifth-century marble relief on view at the Byzantine and ... that houses an ancient mosaic of the Epiphany, boasts several ties to early Nativity scenes.

You've always wanted to go to Bethlehem and see the Church of Nativity but what else is there ... The building was founded by Queen Helen of the Byzantine Empire. Adjacent to the Church is ...

The move could imperil its 14th-century frescos and mosaics which are regarded among the world’s finest examples of Byzantine art, prompting the late historian John Julius Norwich to describe th ...