Ancient Antioch, once a major Hellenistic and early Christian metropolis, yielded remarkable Roman mosaics during 1930s excavations, including the Apolausis “Enjoyment” floor mosaic from a luxurious bath complex.
Dioscurides and Krithamo
The Vienna Dioscurides — a breathtaking 515 AD Byzantine manuscript gifted to Anicia Juliana — preserves Greek botanical wisdom and over a thousand medicinal plants in luminous illuminated splendour.
Albenga Baptistery
The Albenga Baptistery, an ambitious 6th-century octagonal structure, reflects the city’s Roman and Early Christian continuity, blending architectural innovation with the layered history of ancient Albium Ingaunum.
Eάλω η Πόλις
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.
The Joshua Roll
The Joshua Roll is a rare Byzantine illuminated manuscript in scroll form, blending classical Hellenistic style with imperial ideology to narrate Joshua’s conquests as a celebration of divine and military triumph.
The Limbourg Brothers… and the 1st of May
In the illuminated masterpiece Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, the Limbourg Brothers depict a lavish May procession, blending aristocratic splendour, seasonal ritual, and layered landscape into one of the most iconic visions of medieval court life.