Students in Tyler Assistant Professor Joseph Kopta's art history class on the art of the Byzantine Empire have launched a virtual exhibition, Fragments of Byzantium. The collaborative project features works of art from the Eastern Roman Empire (ca. 300—1453 CE), which students studied in person at local collections in Philadelphia and New York. The class collaboratively chose the objects for the exhibition, individually researched them, grouped them together into galleries, and designed the virtual exhibition. 

Contributors include Miranda Aebersold-Burke, Ethan Bisselberg, Jay DaCruz, Virginia Edwards, Casper McNew, Maggie Miller, Evan Morgans, Winton Petty, Teni Real, and Jericho Steele.

For their help and generosity in undertaking this project, thanks are due to Dr. Nick Herman, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries; Katy Blanchard, Emily Moore, Elizabeth Pamblanco, and Janessa Reeves, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Dr. Jane Evans, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University; and Sophia Dahab, Rare Books Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. Thanks also to Art History graduate students Ivy D’Agostino, Cecelia Heintzelman, and Martina Merlo for their feedback!

Access the project here; click here