In a superb octavo volume, replete with valuable maps, plans, and illustrations, and bearing the title "Byzantine Constantinople," Alexander Van Millingen, Professor of History in Roberts College ...

The emperor died fighting the Ottoman Turks when Constantinople fell in 1453 ... preserved portrait of an emperor in ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire ... The tradition of painting the same, or similar, images of saints and holy people is meant ...

A contemporary of Giotto, considered the father of Western painting, the artist conventionally ... until the capture of the imperial capital Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.