Warren T. Woodfin,  Kallinikeion Assistant Professor of Art History, Queens College, City University of New York, and guest curator for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current exhibition Liturgical Textiles of the Post-Byzantine World, on view through November 1, 2015, gives a brief introduction to the history of liturgical vestments in the Byzantine church in his blog post, Why Vestments? An Introduction to Liturgical Textiles of the Post-Byzantine World.

If you will be attending the 41st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference in New York, October 22–October 25 2015, join Warren in the Met galleries for a discussion of these beautiful textiles. See the Byzantine Studies Conference website for more details.