Stories from Genesis
The stories of Genesis are the fond of a great deal of Western literature, art and even law. But most of us learned them as illiterates.
Category: Art
Late Byzantine mosaics
In the hills behind Palermo, Sicily, is the community of Monreale — “Royal Mountain” — and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin, built by a ...
Hellenistic-Roman Mosaics
September 4, 476 C.E. is the conventional date — sanctioned by Edward Gibbon — for the end of the Roman Empire. On that day, the military leader of the...
Early Byzantine Mosaics
The Second Coming when an eternally youthful Christ, seated on a watery globe from which pour the four rivers of Eden, hands the Martyrs Crown to Saint V...
The Lamentation
The Lamentation of Christ in Death is a group of seven, mediæval terracotta sculptures.
Toledo
The Organ at the back of the Choir of the Cathedral of St Mary of Toledo The city, lodged in a bend of high cliffs over the river Tagus, has been a fortress ...
About this portfolio
This is an Apology for my portfolio of photographs: not for the photographs themselves, although you might think they deserve one. The best reason I can...