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Drawing of Job and His Family Represented as Heraclius and His Family
Date:5th century (text), ca. 615–629 (drawing)
Geography:Made in, Egypt
Medium:Ink on parchment; 8 fols.
Dimensions:11 x 9 7/16 in. (28 x 24 cm)
Classification:Manuscripts
Credit Line:Biblioteca Nazionale “Vittorio Emanuele III,” Naples (MS.I.B.18)
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis. The bejeweled woman, holding the measuring tool for the Roman foot, is identified by the Greek inscription as Ktisis, a figure personifying the act of generous donation or foundation.
Byzantine, 500–550
The straight-up best figure- of this latest period where the Byzantine empire just went to shit, probably is Theodosius III (who ruled from 715-717). Basically - the Opsician Theme’s army were returning from campaigning against the Arabs and decided they wanted to overthrow the emperor- and actually succeed in placing someone under their control on the throne. They heard about a local well-liked tax collector (Theodosius), which makes him basically a cryptid - and wanted to make him emperor. Given the grisly ends most recent usurpers met, Theodosius very sensibly decided to run away- but the Opsician army caught him and made him emperor against his will.
Hagia Sophia: some facts
The Hagia Sophia, whose name means “holy wisdom,” is a domed monument originally built as a cathedral in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) in the sixth century CE.
With the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Hagia Sophia became a mosque and was renamed Aya Sofya Camii.
Hagia Sophia was converted into a museum in 1935 by the first President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Only Patheon in Rome has slightly bigger dome than the dome of Hagia Sophia in the world.
The Alter, the bells, sacrificial vessels and iconostasis were all removed when the church was converted into a mosque.
The vast interior is wholly free of suggestion of ponderous load, and its effect is that of a weightless golden shell that seems to possess a miraculous inherent stability.
A variety of ornate mosaics were added over the centuries by each emperor after Justinian I. They included imperial portraits, images of the imperial family, different emperors, saints, images of Christ and Virgin Mary with Jesus as a child.
The powerful Doge Enrico Dandolo, the chief magistrate of the Republic of Venice who was over 90 years old and blind, led the Latin Christians on a siege of Constantinople. The city and the church were sacked and desecrated, many golden mosaics were taken back to Italy, and Dandolo was buried at Hagia Sophia after his death in 1205 CE.
(Images from Wikipedia)
Byzantine gold and cloisonné ring, dated to the 10th century CE. Found on Medieval Rings.
Nikephoros Gregoras can dismiss the Battle of Crécy with the illuminating sentence: “The Britons crossed over to the mainland of the Celts with their fleet and there was a great battle.”
reminder that Crécy was in 1346, the Byzantines really did not give a single fuck about western Europe, that’s almost impressive
[“The Byzantine View of Western Europe”, Donald M. Nicol]
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Byzantine gold ring depicting Chi-Rho, the first letters of Christ in Greek, dated to the 6th to 7th centuries CE. Found in the Princeton University Art Museum.
byzantine-themed street art in ravenna, by invader
Byzantine Emperors
Valeria Cabrera
Coins were the “most widespread medium” for showing the popularity of the ruler. Therefore, all rulers had their own coins minted. These coins were mostly made out of gold, but in some cases they were either copper or silver.
Source: http://www.doaks.org/museum/online-exhibitions/byzantine-emperors-on-coins
Top: 9th Century Old Norse graffiti, Hagia Sofia, Istanbul. Bottom: 13th century Old Norse runestone, Kingittorsuaq Island, North-west Greenland
Over 300 years and over 3000 miles between them, the tracks of the Vikings are endlessly fascinating.
The Last Day of the Byzantine Empire
May 29, 1453 A.D., the city of Constantinople falls to Ottoman forces led by Mehmed II after a fifty-three day siege. The fall of the Eastern Roman Empire’s capital, coupled with the death of Emperor Constantine XI in battle, signaled the end of the last remnants of the Roman Empire.
Aelia, Graphite & Digital Media, 14” x 11”, 2014.
Art Nouveau vs. Byzantium. Not such a bad mashup after all.
Byzantine Madonna della Misericordia kept in the Church of S. Marco in Florence, 8th century AD
John VIII Palaiologos by Benozzo Gozzoli
John VIII as Pontius Pilatus in Piero della Francesca’s Flagellation
Sketches of John VIII Palaiologos during his visit at the Council of Florence in 1438 by Pisanello
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Mosaic from Haghia Sophia of Alexios Komnenos (1106-42), eldest son and co-Emperor of John II. He is depicted as a beardless youth, probably at the time of his coronation at 16 or 17 years of age.
Byzantine Fashions by Tom Tierney
Top picture: A distribution of Eastern Roman (Byzantine) coins discovered in China.
Bottom Picture: Gold solidus of Eastern Roman Emperors Justin I and Justinian II, 527 CE, found in tomb of Tian Hong (d. 575) at Guyuan, China.
