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Realistic portrait of the last Byzantine ruler found in Greek monastery
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. The finding was made during ...
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Portrait of 'last Christian emperor' of Constantinople and Byzantine discovered in Greece
Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, Constantine XI Palaiologos (Feb. 8 1404 – May 29 1453), dubbed the last ...
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A Byzantine Warning.On the new documentary film, The Fall of an Empire—the Lesson of Byzantium
We are referring to the popular Byzantine Portraits by Charles Diehl, which became for many a discovery of Byzantium, up to that time something akin to Plato’s Atlantis. At first C. Diehl describes ...