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The Virgin Mary rising from among the walls of Constantinople. Coin of Michael VIII Palaiologos, commemorating the recapture of Constantinople in 1261. During the siege of the city by the Fourth Crusade, the sea walls nonetheless proved to be a weak point in the city's defences, as the Venetians managed to storm them.
The Great Palace of Constantinople. Translated by William Metcalfe. London: Alexander Gardner. Tozer, H. F. (30 September 1893). "Review of The Great Palace of Constantinople by the late Dr. A. G. Paspates, translated from the Greek by William Metcalfe". The Academy. 44 (1117): 277– 278. Westbrook, Nigel (2007-12-21). "Great Palace in ...
[17] [18] The text describes how above the imperial throne was an image of Christ enthroned, while an image over the entrance depicted the Virgin Mary, with images of the Emperor and the Patriarch nearby. [17] Christ was most likely seated on a "lyre-backed" throne, the same image seen in imperial coins and other Byzantine mosaics. [14]
Ruins of the Hippodrome, from an engraving by Onofrio Panvinio in his work De Ludis Circensibus (Venice, 1600). The engraving, dated 1580, may be based on a drawing from the late 15th century. [2] The spina that stood at the center of the chariot racing circuit was still visible then; in modern Istanbul, three of the ancient monuments remain. [3]
The ruins of the monastery are situated not far from the Propontis (Sea of Marmara) in the section of Istanbul called Psamathia, today's Koca Mustafa Paşa. It was founded in 462 by the consul Flavius Studius , a Roman patrician who had settled in Constantinople, and was consecrated to Saint John the Baptist .
The Palace of Antiochos (Greek: τὰ παλάτια τῶν Ἀντιόχου) [1] was an early 5th-century palace in the Byzantine capital, Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey). It has been identified with a palatial structure excavated in the 1940s and 1950s close to the Hippodrome of Constantinople , some of whose remains are still ...
Gennadios Scholarios, Patriarch of Constantinople from 1454 to 1464, was saying that the capital of the Empire, that was once the "city of wisdom", became "the city of ruins". [ 90 ] When the Ottoman Turks captured the city (1453) it contained approximately 50,000 people. [ 91 ]
The Imperial Library of Constantinople, in the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, was the last of the great libraries of the ancient world. Long after the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria and the other ancient libraries, it preserved the knowledge of the ancient Greeks and Romans for almost 1,000 years. [ 1 ]