His last name Monomachos — meaning "one who fights alone," or essentially "the gladiator" in Greek — distinguished him as part of an aristocratic family that was active in the politics of the ...

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Portrait of Mehmed the Conqueror by Gentile Bellini, 1480. Constantine Palaiologos was the last Byzantine emperor. Credit: Public Domain. Shortly before the fall, Palaiologos visited Hagia Sophia, ...

Here are 25 royal family portraits from the 1930s to now. Members of the British royal family surely have many talents, but if there's one skill they've mastered, it's posing for pictures.

BOSTON — “Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is an exhibition about human rapport. A sort of boutique blockbuster — if such a thing is possible — it ...

Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 self-portrait is the star of an exhibition in Milledgeville, Ga. She “stares at us with the deadpan of a Byzantine saint, a golden sun hat engulfing her head like a ...

The portrait of the emperor is deemed realistic by experts at the Greek Ministry of Culture. (Photo: Greek Ministry of Culture) Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown ...

The portrait of the emperor is deemed realistic (not idealized) by experts at the Greek Ministry of Culture. | Courtesy Greek Ministry of Culture Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a ...