Images

11th century

Crown of Constantine IX Monomachos

Enamel plaques and medallions on gold

1048 approx.

10 x 4.5 cm

Hungary, Budapest, Magyar Nemzeti Mωzeum

Byzantium

Three women dancing, a fourth woman playing a small drum

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1050 approx.

Italy, Roma, Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vat. gr. 747, fol. 90L906)

Byzantium, Greece

Myriam dancing

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature

1050 approx.

Italy, Vatican, Biblioteca

Byzantium, Italy

Mariam and two other girls dancing

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1050 approx.

Italy, Roma, Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Cod. 746, fol. 194)

Byzantium, Greece, Israel

Two dancers at a wedding procession

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1050 approx.

Italy, Venezia, Biblioteca Marciana (gr. 479)

Byzantium

The dance of Myriam and the women of Israel

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, tempera on vellum

1058 approx.

33 x 27 cm

Italy, Roma, Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vat. gr. 752)

Byzantium, Israel

The sons and daughters of Job dining. Two male dancers in the foreground

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature

1080 approx.

Egypt, Mount Sinai, Monastery of Saint Catherine

Byzantium