Michael III, the "Alcoholic" Byzantine Emperor, ruled surprisingly well despite his controversial behavior and personal ...

The Iconoclasm dispute was a struggle against the reliance on monastic art to venerate religious figures, and despite its ultimate failure, it did succeed in opening up Byzantine art and culture ...

Even before the war, the mosaic was well documented by archaeologists as a rare work of art that had survived iconoclasm - where use of religious images was banned by Byzantine emperors throughout the ...