[joan]

The Museum's site on the Special Exhibition

[joan]

More than 350 objects—icons, manuscripts, vestments and other gorgeously embroidered fabrics—have been gathered together, including 40 from St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai and several from Kosovo where more than a dozen churches were destroyed last week.

The art of Byzantium: Glories of gold

[EggsAckley]

I love the Byzantine art. And it's amazing to see how, in time, it moved toward the Renaissance realism.

[EggsAckley]

Oh, and thanks for posting this. Touring the art was fasciniating.

[MarMema]

Well thank God they are not in Serbia so they are not being destroyed by hoodlum mobs. Like much of the rest of my/our Orthodox Holy Heritage in Kosovo is being destroyed on a daily basis.

[Julliardsux]

I saw this on Wednesday night (my wife wrote some of the plaques that accompany the pieces). It is absolutely stunning, and definitely worth seeing. There is just so much, including an entire, enormous chandelier hanging from the ceiling to the floor that is from the 14th century.

[Xenalyte]

Phenomenal. Almost makes me want to venture back to the Big Wormy Apple to see it.

[Honorary Serb]

Thanks for the ping--I hope that I can go and see the exhibit before July 4. This shows, for all the world to see, the high level of Serbian civilization--despite the lies of the Halfbrights Holbrookes, and Amanpours of the world.

In contrast, those who know the Kosovo Shiptars regard many of them as mafia clan-based savages. Even many other Albanians--especially Orthodox Tosks from the south--agree with this view. And ever since Kosovo was stolen from Serbia by the clintonites and their Eurotrash collaborators, their savagery has increased even more!!

[KellyAdmirer]

I saw a similar exhibit a couple of years ago. As a student of that period, I found it fascinating, a real window into a very neglected yet extremely important period of history. It's good art, too.

[vooch]

Do you think they'll stop the KLA from pillaging the show ?