![Fresco from the Roman Catacombs, third century](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/11-387x600.jpg)
Fresco from the Roman Catacombs, third century
![Setting of a Gospel. Second half of the fifth century. Treasury of the Duomo, Milan, Italy. Frangment.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/216.jpg)
Setting of a Gospel. Second half of the fifth century. Treasury of the Duomo, Milan, Italy. Frangment.
![Mosaic from the arch of an Arian Baptistry. End of the fifth century. Ravenna, Italy.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/316-580x580.jpg)
Mosaic from the arch of an Arian Baptistry. End of the fifth century. Ravenna, Italy.
![Mosaic from the Monastery of Chora (Kahrie Cami) in Constantinople. 1316-1321. Istanbul, Turkey.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/410-461x600.jpg)
Mosaic from the Monastery of Chora (Kahrie Cami) in Constantinople. 1316-1321. Istanbul, Turkey.
![Sancta Sanctorum chapel reliquary. Sixth century. Vatican Museums. Fragment.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/55.jpg)
Sancta Sanctorum chapel reliquary. Sixth century. Vatican Museums. Fragment.
![Mosaic from the Cathedral of the Monastery of Hosios Loukas in Phocis. Eleventh century. Greece.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/06-580x350.jpg)
Mosaic from the Cathedral of the Monastery of Hosios Loukas in Phocis. Eleventh century. Greece.
![Icon. Middle of the fourteenth century. National Museum. Belgrade.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/71-459x600.jpg)
Icon. Middle of the fourteenth century. National Museum. Belgrade.
![Mosaic from the arch of the Orthodox Baptistery. Roughly middle of the fifth century. Ravenna, Italy.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/81-580x571.jpg)
Mosaic from the arch of the Orthodox Baptistery. Roughly middle of the fifth century. Ravenna, Italy.
![9-485x600](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/9-485x600.jpg)
Miniature of the Echmiadzin Gospel. Sixth century. Institute of Ancient Manuscripts. Maternadaran, Yerevan, Armenia.
![Miniature. Codex. 586. Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy. Fragment.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/108-346x600.jpg)
Miniature. Codex. 586. Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy. Fragment.
![Khludovskoye Psalter. Mid-Ninth Century. Moscow.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/119-440x600.jpg)
Khludovskoye Psalter. Mid-Ninth Century. Moscow.
![Ivory diptych. Byzantium. End of the tenth century. State Hermitage. St. Petersburg. Fragment.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/129.jpg)
Ivory diptych. Byzantium. End of the tenth century. State Hermitage. St. Petersburg. Fragment.
![Fresco from the Church of Tokai Kilis in Goreme. Tenth-eleventh centuries. Cappadocia. Turkey.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/13_tokali_kilise_gereme_-X-XI_v1-487x600.jpg)
Fresco from the Church of Tokai Kilis in Goreme. Tenth-eleventh centuries. Cappadocia. Turkey.
![Mosaic from the cathedral of the Monastery of Nea Moni on Chios. 1042-1056. Greece.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/147-580x456.jpg)
Mosaic from the cathedral of the Monastery of Nea Moni on Chios. 1042-1056. Greece.
![Mosaic from the Church of the Dormition in Daphne. About 1100. Greece.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/157-489x600.jpg)
Mosaic from the Church of the Dormition in Daphne. About 1100. Greece.
![Gospel Miniature. Second half of the twelfth century. Moscow. Fragment.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/165-580x546.jpg)
Gospel Miniature. Second half of the twelfth century. Moscow. Fragment.
![Icon. Second half of the twelfth century. Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai. Fragment.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/174-555x600.jpg)
Icon. Second half of the twelfth century. Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai. Fragment.
![Triptych icon. Twelfth century. Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai. Fragment.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/184-600x352.jpg)
Triptych icon. Twelfth century. Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai. Fragment.
![Icon. Beginning of the thirteenth century. Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai. Fragment.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/193.jpg)
Icon. Beginning of the thirteenth century. Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai. Fragment.
![Mosaics of the Cathedral of San Marco. Thirteenth century. Venice, Italy. Fragment.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/202-580x488.jpg)
Mosaics of the Cathedral of San Marco. Thirteenth century. Venice, Italy. Fragment.
![Royal Gates. Thirteenth-fourteenth centuries. From the fort of Old Ryazan.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/214.jpg)
Royal Gates. Thirteenth-fourteenth centuries. From the fort of Old Ryazan.
![Gates of the Novgorod Cathedral of St. Sophia. 1336.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/223.jpg)
Gates of the Novgorod Cathedral of St. Sophia. 1336.
![Icon from the festal row of the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir. 1408. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/233-447x600.jpg)
Icon from the festal row of the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir. 1408. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
![Double-sided icon. Second quarter of the fifteenth century. Sergiev Posad History and Art Museum-Reserve.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/243-459x600.jpg)
Double-sided icon. Second quarter of the fifteenth century. Sergiev Posad History and Art Museum-Reserve.
![Shroud. 1580s. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/254-492x600.jpg)
Shroud. 1580s. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
![Icon. Russian North. End of the sixteenth to beginning of the seventeenth centuries. Moscow.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/262.jpg)
Icon. Russian North. End of the sixteenth to beginning of the seventeenth centuries. Moscow.
![Master Michael. Icon from the Annunciation Cathedral in Solvychegodsk. Beginning of the seventeenth century. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/27-499x600.jpg)
Master Michael. Icon from the Annunciation Cathedral in Solvychegodsk. Beginning of the seventeenth century. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
![Theophany with saints. End of the eighteenth to beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Rybinsk Museum-Reserve.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/282-520x600.jpg)
Theophany with saints. End of the eighteenth to beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Rybinsk Museum-Reserve.
![Giotto di Bondone. Frescoe from the Chapel del Arena. 1304-1306, Padua, Italy.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/29-580x472.jpg)
Giotto di Bondone. Frescoe from the Chapel del Arena. 1304-1306, Padua, Italy.
![Piero della Francesca. About 1450. National Gallery. London, UK.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/30-411x600.jpg)
Piero della Francesca. About 1450. National Gallery. London, UK.
![Andrea del Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci. 1472 - 1475 the Gallery of the Uffizi, Florence, Italy.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/315-512x600.jpg)
Andrea del Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci. 1472 – 1475 the Gallery of the Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
![Domenico Ghirlandaio. Fresco Church of Santa Maria Novella. Around 1486-1490 Florence, Italy.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/323-580x413.jpg)
Domenico Ghirlandaio. Fresco Church of Santa Maria Novella. Around 1486-1490 Florence, Italy.
![Joachim Patinir. 1515 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/333-580x442.jpg)
Joachim Patinir. 1515 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
![Camille Corot. 1847. The Church of St. Nicholas in Chardonnay, Paris, France.](https://www.pravmir.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/34-309x600.jpg)
Camille Corot. 1847. The Church of St. Nicholas in Chardonnay, Paris, France.