The topic of this thesis is the way of handling death as a concept in Byzantine art, according to the scenes of death of saints and afterlife as depicted in icons like Last Judgement, Anastasis, The Heaven Ladder of John ...

In this dissertation, which presents a sample of a saint cult in the focus of martyr saints Ioulitta and Kerykos accompanied by visual and written data, the theme of healing in the churches in Byzantium and in its vicinity ...