Andrea Olsen Lam teaches art history for Pepperdine University's campus in Washington, DC. Her current project on the Visitation demonstrates the heretofore overlooked significance of the Virgin Mary's pregnancy in Byzantine art and ritual. Her other research interests include early medieval art that reflects Jewish-Christian-Muslim interactions and the history of iconoclasms.

Rossitza Schroeder is Associate Professor of art history at St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers, NY. Her primary field of research is Byzantine art. Her current project sheds light on the interactions between Byzantine monastic practice and visual representations. She is also writing on Byzantine-Ottoman-Venetian relations as manifested in Gentile Bellini's 1480 portrait of Sultan Mehmed II.