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The Byzantine Legacy
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Art, architecture, and history from Late Antique, Early Christian, and the Byzantine eras
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Conquest Of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204

Miniature from 15th-century manuscript « Croniques abregies commençans au temps de Herode Antipas...» at BnF
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Bizye was once a regional capital of Thracian kings and later a Byzantine fortified city that was captured by the Bulgarians, Crusaders, Catalans, and finally the Ottomans. Engraving from Sayger & Desarnod (1834)

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Gate of Vize (historic Bizye), an ancient city of Eastern Thrace (Kırklareli Province), possibly dates to the Roman era, with Byzantine repairs.
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 3d
Photos of Palmyra by John Henry Haynes (1884) at Cornell University Library available online here

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 3d
Photos of Palmyra, Syria by John Henry Haynes (1884) taken during the Wolfe Expedition

From the J. R. Sitlington Sterrett Collection of Archaeological Photographs at Cornell University Library
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 4d
Madrid Skylitzes at Biblioteca Nacional de España
Digitalized on BNE's website
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 4d
Danielis, a wealthy Byzantine widow visiting Basil I
From Madrid Skylitzes

Danielis summoned him to her presence, where she showered [future emperor Basil] with gifts and considerable favors. All she sought in return was that he would bind himself to her son with the bond of spiritual brotherhood.
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 5d
Video on the Prostrated Emperor at Hagia Sophia
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Prostrated Emperor at Hagia Sophia
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 5d
Mosaic of an archangel at Hagia Sophia
From the depiction of the Prostrated Emperor over the door to the naos, which possibly depicts Leo VI (886-912)
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 6d
The Horses of Saint Mark’s in Venice

“The four gilded horses which can be seen above the starting gates [of the hippodrome] came from Chios under Theodosios the Younger.”
From the Patria of Constantinople (translated by Albrecht Berger), a collection of legends about Byzantine Constantinople
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 9d
The Ruins on Alay Köşkü Street feature three phases from Istanbul's Byzantine, Ottoman, and Early Republican eras.
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Ruins on Alay Köşkü Street
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 9d
A short video on the icons of Saints Peter and Paul at Chora available on Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/saints...
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 9d
Mosaic icons of Saints Peter and Paul are on each side of the door leading into the naos of the former monastery of Chora/Kariye Camii
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 11d
Imperial mosaics from the galleries of Hagia Sophia
Zoe and Constantine IX Monomachos with Christ Pantokrator (left)
John II Komnenos and Eirene of Hungary with the Virgin and the Christ Child (right)
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 13d
Porta Aurea/Χρυσεία Πύλη (“Golden Gate”) and Yedikule (“Seven Towers”) Fortress
From Cornelius Gurlitt “Die Baukunst Konstantinopels” (1912)
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 14d
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Galerius Palace
Significant building remains of the complex came to light in excavations carried out during the second half of the 20th century. Some of these, like the Apsidal Hall and the buildings at the archaeological site in Navarinou Square, are visible and open to the public, though most have been buried due to the reconstruction of the historic city center.
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 14d
Reconstruction of the Hippodrome of Thessaloniki
From Galerius Palace/Thessaloniki Ephorate of Antiquities website (see link below)
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 15d
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Capital with Bust of the Archangel Michael - Byzantine - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This capital, in the form of a bust-length image of the winged archangel Michael, whose name is inscribed in Greek on its abacus, shows him turning to the right and holding a trilobed scepter, and an ...
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 15d
Photo album from the MET
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Late Antique and Byzantine Art at the MET
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 15d
Capital with bust of the Archangel Michael
Constantinople, second half of the 13th century
At the MET
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 18d
rebuilt in the Byzantine era, perhaps first for protection from the Arab invasions and later from the Seljuks, nearby is the Roman rock-cut tomb of Pelagia, later Christianized and identified as a martyr in the Byzantine era, and a Byzantine rock-cut cave house
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 18d
Hellenistic/Galatian hilltop fortification of Güzelcekale (Ankara/historic Galatia) ...
Photos taken today
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 18d
Found abandoned in a cistern of the Mangana complex by the Marmara Sea, the marble relief icon depicts the Theotokos (Mother of God) with her arms raised in prayer (orans). The surviving right hand has a hole from which water could have flowed, suggesting it was from a hagiasma ("holy spring").
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 18d
Marble icon with the Orant Virgin
11th century, Mangana (Constantinople)
At the Istanbul Archaeological Museums
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 19d
Hagia Sophia by Gaspare Fossati (1852)

From "Aya Sofia, Constantinople, As Recently Restored by Order of H.M. the Sultan Abdul Medjid, from the original drawings by Chevalier Gaspard Fossati, lithographed by Louis Haghe, esq"
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