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Left: Glass paste mosaic clypeus showing a frontal portrait bust of Maria Simplicia Rustica, surrounded by concentric borders of coloured tesserae, around 350 AD. Right: Glass paste mosaic clypeus showing a frontal portrait bust of Flavius Iulius Iulianus, surrounded by concentric borders of coloured tesserae, about 350 AD.

Ciriaca’s Mosaics

September 3, 2026 ArchaeologyByzantine ArtEarly Christian ArtTeaching Resources
Left: Japanese lacquer inrō decorated with blooming chrysanthemums and asters in gold and coloured lacquer, Edo period, 18th–19th century. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Right: Japanese lacquer inrō featuring chrysanthemums and asters in delicate gold lacquer against a dark background, Edo period, 18th–19th century. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Autumn in the Palm of Your Hand: Asters, Chrysanthemums and Two Japane...

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Tabula Peutingeriana

Eάλω η Πόλις

May 29, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou Roman ArtTeaching Resources

The Tabula Peutingeriana presents the Roman world as a continuous road network rather than a geographic map, where stretched landscapes, red routes, and symbolic markers guide travellers through cities, inns, and distances.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Monna Vanna

Virtual Trip to meet the Pre-Raphaelites

May 26, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtBritish ArtTeaching Resources

The Pre-Raphaelites reimagined art through intense realism, nature, and emotion—Rossetti and his circle reshaping Victorian creativity into a vivid world of beauty, symbolism, and imaginative “conception.”

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Small Arch of Galerius in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

Small Arch of Galerius

May 22, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou Roman ArtTeaching Resources

The Pre-Raphaelites reimagined art through intense realism, nature, and emotion—Rossetti and his circle reshaping Victorian creativity into a vivid world of beauty, symbolism, and imaginative “conception.”

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Edgar Degas, Singer with a Glove

Singer with a Glove…

May 19, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtImpressionismTeaching Resources

Degas, a reluctant Impressionist, fused classical training with modern vision, capturing Parisian life—especially women at work and in performance—through dynamic composition, light, and an unflinching sense of immediacy.

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Hans Holbein the Younger (formerly attributed to), Portrait of a Woman from Southern Germany

The Mauritshuis

May 14, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou Northern Renaissance ArtRenaissance ArtTeaching Resources

The Mauritshuis offers an intimate encounter with Dutch Golden Age masterpieces, where Vermeer’s quiet beauty and Rembrandt’s depth invite reflection on art, history, and the enduring search for meaning.

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Terracotta Warrior from Qin Shihuangdi’s Tomb

Virtual Trip to meet the 1st Emperor of China

May 12, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou Teaching Resources

Quin Shi Huang Di unified the country, standardized the laws, money, weights, measures and writing. He built the Great Wall of China and even had the country named after him. He built himself an amazing tomb that is famous for the army of 6,000 terra-cotta warriors.

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The Iron Crown,  Monza Cathedral

The Iron Crown

May 8, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou Early Christian ArtTeaching Resources

Teodolinda’s Iron Crown of Monza unites legend, devotion, and power—an Early Christian masterpiece of gold and gems, entwined with Constantine’s relic and Italy’s royal coronations through centuries of sacred history.

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Hôtel Hannon

Brussels Virtual Destination

May 3, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou Art NouveauTeaching Resources

Brussels embodies Art Nouveau elegance—its curved lines and organic forms shaping a city of architectural beauty, where imagination, design, and European identity meet in a harmonious, marsh-born capital.

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The Month of May, possibly by Maestro Venceslao, Torre Aquila, Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento, Italy

The Month of May

May 1, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou Italian Renaissance ArtRenaissance ArtTeaching Resources

Master Wenceslas’s May fresco at Torre Aquila celebrates spring as aristocratic delight and rural renewal, where blossoming nature, courtly love, and Alpine prosperity merge into a radiant vision of medieval life.

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 Theodoros Ralli,  Veiled Woman

Theodoros Ralli

April 29, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtModern Greek ArtTeaching Resources

Born in Constantinople, Theodoros Ralli became Greece’s most celebrated Orientalist painter — a charming Parisian socialite nicknamed Don Juan, with an iron will and a passion for the East.

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