The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople in 1204.

The fall of Constantinople on May 29 ... is a hidden gem of Byzantine art and architecture. Originally a monastery, it is renowned for its stunning mosaics and frescoes that depict biblical ...

But the latest renovation aims not only to restore the wonders of the 1,488-year gem, but to ensure it survives the next ...

The Revival of the Antique in 15th and 16th Century Cretan Painting" After the fall of Constantinople (1453), the island of Crete, which had been under Venetian rule since 1204, was the most important ...

which ruled the city known as Constantinople at the time. It served as a church until the fall of the city to the Ottomans in 1453, when it became a mosque. In 1935, Mustafa Ataturk, the founder ...

A contemporary of Giotto, considered the father of Western painting ... and Asia and endured from the fall of Rome until the capture of the imperial capital Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks ...

“Orthodox change nothing,” Father Sava adds. “The faith that was delivered to the saints,” Martin agrees. We pause before a striking painting of the Virgin Mary surrounded by a duel of light and dark ...

Claudius Schulze Since 2010 archaeologists and historians from Turkey, New Zealand and Australia have scoured the field each fall, recording ... Imperial War Museum / The Art Archive at Art ...

Credit: Walters Art Museum, licensed under CC0 ... From its foundation in 27 BC under Augustus to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD and the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire in 1453, Rome ...

The Register presents five of Tissot’s works that reflect Christ’s path, with reflections.