A unique portrait of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, was discovered at the Old ...

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, ...

In the portrait, the emperor appears wearing regalia adorned with crowned double-headed eagles. These were symbols of the Palaiologos dynasty, which was the longest-ruling of the Byzantine Empire.

The Iconic Portrait Strand, a series of portraits painted by artist Nestor Topchy in the style of Byzantine era religious icon paintings, is on display at the Menil Collection Thursday, August 3 ...

One of Anguissola’s ancestors, according to family tradition, was the Byzantine warlord Galvano Sourdi. He helped to liberate Constantinople from the Saracens in the early 8th century using ...

The newly discovered portrait, the only contemporary of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine Palaiologos XI. Credit: Ministry of Culture of Greece . Based on stylistic criteria, the work can be ...

AIGIALEIA, GREECE—ArtNet News reports that a portrait of the Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was […] ...

William & Mary Assistant Art History Professor Cristina Stancioiu will spend much of this summer in Crete and Rhodes, thanks in part to a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical ...

Part of a Byzantine candle holder was found in the Israeli town of Tzur Yitzhak south of Modi'in on Saturday, by a family who went out for a Shabbat walk.. According to a release from the Israel ...

Art history sleuths in Europe have determined that two separate portraits by a 17th-century Flemish artist actually belong together — and the two works of art have been reunited in a Danish museum.

A unique portrait of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, was discovered at the Old Monastery of the Archangels in Aigialeia, Greece.