Contemporary Icons (XIIth Century)

Torcello, Venice
Mandylion, Novgorod
Constantinople, Museum of Berlin
St. Neophytos, Cyprus


Byzantine art


Contemporary art


Mosaics of Agia Sophia, Constantinople.

'Annunciation of Oustioug, icon.

Wall paintings of Agia Sophia, Novgorod.

Pantocrator, cupola of Daphni.

Wall paintings of Backovo (Bulgaria).

Mosaics of the church of Ghelat (Georgia).

"Virgin with the Child", mosaic of the apse, Torcello (Venice).

Santa Maria e Donato, Murano (Venice).

Mosaics of St Mark, Venice.

Mosaics of Cefalù, Palatine Chapel, Martorana, and Montreale in Sicilia.

Pieta of Nerezi, fresco (Yougoslavia.)

Virgin of Vladimir sent from Constantinople to Vladimir

Icon-mosaic of Christ "Eleïmon" (Berlin)

Icons of Sinai

Russia : wall paintings of Argouzhsk, Mirojoski (Pskov), St Georges of Ladoga,

Icon of St Démitrius, Vladimir

Church of our Saviour of Neredica.

Frescoes of Naxos, Cyprus, Crete.

Wall paintings of St Georges of Kurbinovo (Yougoslavia) and Kastoria (Greece).



Byzantine inspired frescoes of Berzé-la-Ville, Paray-le-Monial, le Puy-en-Velay, St Julien of Brioule, Saint Nectaire, St Michael of Rocamadour.


1120 - 1140 Saint Madeleine of Vezelay.

Wall paintings of Santa Maria of Tahull (Spain).

1135 - Ste Foy de Conques.

1139 - 1147 Abbey church of Fontenay.

1140 - San Miniato, Firenze.

Wall paintings of St Savin (Poitou, France).

1143 - 1168 Cathedral of Sens.


Apogee of romanesque paintings in Western Europe.


Stained glasses, Cathedral of Le Mans.

1149 - Portal of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

1153 - Cathedral of Laon.

Cathedrals of Noyon, Soissons and Senlis.

1160 - Stained glasses of Chartres.

1163 - 1177 Cathedral of Paris.

1170 - Cathedral of Wells (England)

1176 - 1240 Cathedral of Strasbourg.

1194 - 1220 Cathedral of Chartres


Political context

Life of the Church


1118 - Reign of John II Komnenos. Christians capture Saragossa.

1121 - Pechenegs are defeated (Turks of Ukrainia). Campaigns against Hungarians.

1143 - Reign of Manuel I Komnenos.

1147 - Norman expeditions against Greece: sack of Thebes and Corinth.

1152 - Frederick II Barbarossa (Holy Roman Empire)

1171 - Alliance between Byzance and Amaury I of Jerusalem against Arabs.

1176 - Byzance loses Phrygia.

1182 - Massacres of Latins at Constantinople.

1186 - Second Bulgarian Empire.

1187 - Saladin captures Jerusalem.

1192 - Richard Lionheart is stopped in front of Jerusalem.



1118 - Foundation of the Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem.





1140 - Abelard's teachings condemned.

1146 - St Bernard preaches the second Crusade at Vezelay. Defeat of crusaders at Dorylaeum.








1190 - Third Crusade. Conquest of St John of Acre.
Occupation of Cyprus. Persecution of the Orthodox.




1195 - Proclamation of the supremacy of the Holy See on the temporal sovereigns.



Spiritual life


St Bruno died in1101

St Anselm of Cantorbery died in 1109

Guillaume of Saint-Thierry died in1148

St Bernard of Claivaux died in 1153

Richard of Saint-Victor died in 1173

St Hildegarde of Bingen died in 1179

St Dominic Guzman was born in 1170

St Francesco of Assisi was born in 1181




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