The campanile, or bell tower, of the cathedral of San Marco greets you as you arrive in the center of #Venice, riding down the Grand Canal. 📷🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/2rVHBy7 #photography #Italy #travel @photography @visualarts @travel

Church of Agioi Apostoli (the Holy Apostles) in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷. The church dates to the 14th century. 📷 https://flic.kr/p/e5iLyW #photography #travel #Orthodoxy #Greece #art #architecture @photography @travel @visualarts @architecture @humanities

View of the Mediterranean from the resort town of Plakias, Crete. Developed in the '70s, it has become a popular tourist destination for European travelers. Plakias beach is one of the largest in Crete and extends in a crescent shape. 📷🇬🇷 flic.kr/p/rNptTd #photography #travel #greece […]

Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in #ravenna built during the reign of the Arian Theoderic (493-526). After the Byzantine conquest, it was given over to the Church in communion with Rome and dedicated to St Martin of Tours. In the 9th c. it was dedicated to St Apollinaris, first bishop of the city. 📷🇮🇹 […]

Statuette of Asklepios, the god of healing, found in excavations of a Roman domus at ancient Corinth. There are remnants of red paint and gold leaf. Second/third century CE. Corinth Museum, inv. S 1999-008 📷🇬🇷 https://flic.kr/p/2kvGKzB #photography #classics #mythology #archaeology #greece […]

One of many golden men decorating the walls of the so-called Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in #ravenna. Each holds a scroll or book and wears the garments of a philosopher/ orator. They have been identified as prophets, apostles, or generic saints. 📷🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/2rkZyBy #photography […]

Here's a view of the dome of the Pantheon in #rome from outside! Snapped this from the top of Castel Sant'Angelo where you can get some really great views of the city! See any other familiar sites? 📷🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/2rTqeva #photography #italy #travel #landscape #architecture #art […]

Detail from an early Christian sarcophagus in the Vatican Museums. The apostles are depicted in the dress and posture of Roman orators/philosophers. They are framed by arches and cornices and separated by Corinthian columns. Fourth century. 📷🇻🇦🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/hTXyD7 #photography […]

Check out my Pio Cristiano Museum | Vatican Museum Early Christian Art Collection on #flickr. Like sarcophagi? This is for you. https://www.flickr.com/photos/60661697@N07/albums/72177720331499545/with/11469698606 #photography #archaeology #earlychristian #art @photography @archaeodons […]

Reading through papal encyclicals in reverse order and sharing highlights here... let's call these #encyclicalbites #theology #catholic

Just got this message from my town in advance of the big storm. I can't wait to hear them!!! 🎵 It's quite a long set.

Greek and Latin inscriptions from the #roman era used for the pavement of the atrium of the so-called "double church" at #ephesus, known as the Church of Mary, which dates to the 5th c. It may have been the site of 431 Council of Ephesus. 📷🇹🇷 https://flic.kr/p/qtm1Br #photography #archaeology […]

The shrine dedicated to the black Madonna of Tindari ("a Madonna du Tinnuru" in Sicilian) is an important place of pilgrimage in northern #sicily. The first sanctuary was built in 11th c. The current basilica was dedicated in 1956. 📷🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/2hcDXK8 #photography #architecture #italy […]

Icon of the Dormition of Mary by the priest-monk Philippos, 15th century. Housed in the Benaki #museum, #athens In a moving play on the iconography of Mary and the child Christ, Christ holds his mother's soul in his arms, swaddled like an infant. 📷🇬🇷 https://flic.kr/p/osuCp3 #photography […]

A statue of the Roman emperor Augustus found in the Julian basilica in #Corinth. This portrait shows Augustus with his head veiled, indicating his offering of a sacrifice, a sign of his piety to the gods. 📷🇬🇷 flic.kr/p/owNf2X #photography #archaeology #Rome #Greece @photography @visualarts#corinth#photography…]

A window in the 12th cent. crypt beneath the altar of the Lutheran cathedral in Lund, #Sweden. 📷🇸🇪 https://flic.kr/p/h4xPfB #photography #travel #architecture #Sweden @photography @travel @humanities @visualarts @architecture

#Byzantine icon of St Antony of Egypt housed in the Benaki Museum, #Athens 📷🇬🇷 https://flic.kr/p/qQKA3A #photography #saints #iconography #art #Greece #museums @photography @travel @humanities @visualarts

@arturoviaggia On our last visit to Rome, we wanted to see the Knights of Malta keyhole and stumbled upon this building on our way. Very glad to have gound it and visited.

Statement Regarding Former Student and Arson at Beth Israel Congregation https://jacksondiocese.org/news/statement-regarding-former-student-and-arson-at-beth-israel-congregation

Basilica of Santa Sabina, #rome. Built in the 5th c. on the site of a temple of Juno, it is one of the earliest Christian basilicas in Rome and still preserves much of its original #architecture. The columns are #spolia from the temple. 📷🇮🇹 […]

A sticharion (liturgical tunic) embroidered with the images of crosses and St. Demiana and the 40 Virgins who were martyred under Diocletian. Housed in the Byzantine and Christian Museum at #athens, 18th/19th c. 📷🇬🇷 https://flic.kr/p/RxtXct #photography #sartorialtheology #textiles #orthodoxy […]

The Magi at the head of a procession of saints and martyrs approaching the Virgin Mary and Christ child. Their names are inscribed above them. The abbreviation "SCS" (sanctus) indicates their status as saints. S. Apollinare Nuovo, #ravenna, sixth century 📷🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/BQtbgx […]

Here's a video I took of the interior of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in #Ravenna. It gives you a good sense of what it's like to view the amazing mosaics on site--the saints procession, the Palatium, and the christological panels. 📹🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/2q1qpPn #photography #travel #lateantiquity […]

Cheese! 🧀 Monza, #Italy 📷🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/2mawqCM #photography #foodies #travel @photography @visualarts @travel

‪In the 13th century, the Franciscan Jacopo Torriti was commissioned with adorning the new apse in the ancient papal basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in #Rome. The mosaic of the Coronation shows Christ crowning his Mother and sharing his throne with her. 📷🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/EXqngJ […]

For #AllSaintsDay the mosaic from the sanctuary arch of Santa Prassede in #Rome showing the saints marching into the pearly gates, greeted by Paul and Peter. Must be the men's entrance. Ninth century. flic.kr/p/2eDtp5Y #photography #Byzantine #Medieval #Mosaics #Italy @visualarts @humanities#allsaintsday#rome…]

A double sided icon from Egypt with St Paul on one side and an unidentified saint on the other. (honestly, I'm not sure which side this is.). 7th-8th c. Housed in the Benaki Museum, #athens. 📷🇬🇷 https://www.flickr.com/photos/60661697@N07/54816910780/in/dateposted-public/ #photography […]

I've been using the same working title for my current book-in-progress project for about 5 years, and now that I'm prepping grant apps for next year's sabbatical, yeah I just changed it. What do you think? Fashioning Philosophy: The Interweaving of Dress, Education, and Art in Late Antiquity.

If you currently can't travel, like me, join me for some #virtualtravel! I'm making my way through #calabria #italy!

The Earth is His Footstool Detail of Christ enthroned on the globe of the earth from the apse of San Vitale in #Ravenna, 6th century. 📷🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/2qzJmFZ #photography #Byzantine #Mosaics #travel #LateAntiquity #ancient #art @photography @visualarts @humanities

Looking desperately for a restroom today in a building on campus I'm not familiar with. I see a "restroom" sign in the distance. I rush towards it. It was a faculty office with a sticker "RESTORE FREEDOM" on the door. Time to go to the optometrist!

The Greek heritage of Calabria isn't only about past history, cultural heritage, or archaeology. There is still a Calabrian Greek dialect called "Grecanico" or "Grico" spoken by an ever dwindling number of speakers. Learn more about it and its preservation here […]

The Earth is His Footstool Detail of Christ enthroned on the globe of the earth from the apse of San Vitale in #Ravenna, 6th century. 📷🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/2qzJmFZ #photography #Byzantine #Mosaics #travel #LateAntiquity #ancient #art @photography @visualarts @humanities

I think historically, Kennedy's have been more lethal than vaccines.

Ambo in the cathedral of #ravenna dedicated by archbishop Agnellus (557-570). An inscription at the top names the bishop and credits him with making the "pyrgum", or "tower". The ambo is decorated with panels with different animals: fish, birds, peacocks, lambs. 📷🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/2pfn2tS […]

View of the Acropolis from the Library of Hadrian in #athens. In the foreground are columns from a tetraconch church that was inserted into the complex in #lateantiquity. 📷🇬🇷 🏺 https://www.flickr.com/photos/60661697@N07/50875599591/in/photostream/ #photography #archaeology #byzantine #travel […]

Hello new followers! If you are #COVIDcautious and like to #travel, follow my #virtualtravel posts! I've been making my way through Calabria #italy this summer!

Detail of a mosaic from the Porta Marina bath complex at Ostia Antica. Here a trumpeter who has won the contest holds his crown of victory on his head as he blows into his trumpet. 2nd/3rd c.CE 📷🇮🇹🏺 https://flic.kr/p/2c8K7PX #photography #archaeology #italy #MosaicMonday @photography […]

Bronze statuette of the philosopher Epicurus found in the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. It was found in what was probably the library suggesting it served as a shelf marker for Epicurus (and/or Epicurean) works. 📷🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/2meGuU4 #photography #archaeology #italy #classics […]

Now for a quick trip north of Rossano to the archaeological site of Sibari, ancient Sybaris, one of the most important cities in Magna Graecia, the area of southern Italy colonized by the Greeks beginning in the 8th c. BCE.

Rossano's Museo Diocesano e del Codex is divided into two sections. One section displays historical artifacts from the town dating from the Greek period to modernity. One of the oldest items is this mirror dating to the 5th c. BCE, It was found in a woman's tomb […] [Original post on zirk.us]

The church of the Panaghia (derived from the Greek for the "all holy" Virgin Mary) in Rossano, #italy is an example of #byzantine architecture in southern #Italy. It has a rectangular nave with a semi-circular apse and semi-dome. It dates to the 11th century. #virtualtravel #travel #Italy […]

The church of the Panaghia (derived from the Greek for the "all holy" Virgin Mary) in Rossano, #italy is an example of #byzantine architecture in southern #Italy. It has a rectangular nave with a semi-circular apse and semi-dome. It dates to the 11th century. #virtualtravel #travel #Italy […]

The cathedral of Rossano (in the Italian region of Calabria) is dedicated to "Maria Santissima Achiropita"-- the icon of the Virgin Mary made without human hands. "Achiropita" is a term derived from Greek, pointing to the town's Byzantine heritage. Built in the 11th […] [Original post on zirk.us]

I'm not able to travel this year, but am doing some #virtualtravel in Calabria 🇮🇹. Come along with me! #travel #photography #italy #CovidIsNotOver

I'm not able to travel this year, but am doing some #virtualtravel in Calabria 🇮🇹. Come along with me! #travel #photography #italy #CovidIsNotOver

Been quiet but still here

View of the east exedra in the Forum of Trajan in #rome. In addition to celebrating the military victories of Trajan the Forum was also the location of libraries and schools. In Late Antiquity the exedra was known as the "schola fori Traiani" 📷🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/2r7y3G7 #photography #travel […]

I just love a #Greek horiatiki salad with fresh tomatoes, olives and that delicious chunk of feta cheese! 📷🇬🇷 #photography #foodies #Greece #travel @photography @travel

The medieval houses, balconies, and flowers of Piazza delle Erbe in Verona 📷🇮🇹 https://flic.kr/p/2qNnMPm #photography #Italy #travel @photography @travel @visualarts