Abstract

Byzantine culture is one of the milestones of European cultural heritage. “BYZART - Byzantine Art and Archaeology on Europeana” project (https://byzart.eu/) addresses the general scope of organizing, digitizing, cataloguing and making available rich archival collections related to the Byzantine cultural heritage on Europeana. The project partners who collaborated to this catalogue (the Department of History and Cultures – University of Bologna, the Institute of Historical Research – Section of Byzantine Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, the Open University of Cyprus, the Ionian University – Department of Audio and Visual Arts, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Institute of Art Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Istituzione Biblioteca Classense – Museo della Città di Ravenna – International Centre for Documentation of Mosaics), have shared their cultural contents with the European community raising awareness about this impressive heritage. The book presents the proceedings of the final meeting of “Byzart - Byzantine Art and Archaeology on Europeana” project and the catalogue of the digital exhibition “The Silk and the Blood. Images of Authority in Byzantine Art and Archaeology”.