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 ...

During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously ...

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 ...