The name Basil II is remembered throughout Byzantine history as one of its most powerful and ruthless Emperors in battle.

During his reign, Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos was transfixed with a strange prophecy concerning the survival of his ...

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It dates to the 15th-century fall of the great empire and offers a vision of the man painted according to his likeness.

The history and characteristics of the unique surviving portrait of the last byzantine emperor, Constantine Palaiologos, ...

The figure is described as an "earthly figure, a mature man with a thin face and individualized features, who exudes ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos's rule as Byzantine Emperor was brief, and his death coincided with the fall of Constantinople.

When we think about the early conquests of Islam, we imagine vast numbers of warriors riding camels across deserts, waving ...

ArtNet News reports that a portrait of the Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was discovered during restoration ...

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Work attributed to Panselinos, from the late 13th and early 14th centuries, is considered the finest produced in an empire ...