The book contains works on Byzantine art, mainly on Byzantine painting. The articles are divided into six groups: methodological questions ("Nikodym Pavlovich Kondakov"), Byzantine Art and Italian Painting of the Early Middle Ages , "Constantinople and National Schools" , analyzing monumental paintings ("Raven mosaics" , "Castelseprio Frescoes" , "Linear Styling Techniques … "Painting of the XI - XII centuries in Macedonia", "Mosaics of Cefalu"), icons ("Three fragments of painted epistilles and Byzantine templon", "Byzantine icons of the XIV - XV centuries", "New memorabilia of Byzantine painting of the XIV century . High rank" , » "Two new monuments of easel painting and the Paleologian era" , Miniatures ("Several criticisms of the Khludov Psalter" , "The 11th-Century King's Facial Psalter" , "New monument of the Constantinople miniature of the XIII century" , dedicated to special iconographic problems ("Etudes on the Iconography of the Mother of God"). Also included in the book are three chapters from the History of Byzantine Painting B. N. Lazareva: “Fundamentals of Byzantine Art”, “Byzantine Aesthetics”, “System of Painting Decoration of the Byzantine Temple” . Taken together, the articles cover almost all aspects of Byzantine artistic culture.