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Shows the enthroned emperor wearing a crown and holding a scepter and the globus cruciger, inscription reads: Ἐρρῖκος dεσπότης (Henry, despotes)

Obverse: Virgin orans within city walls (Constantinople?) with six groups of towers

Reverse: Kneeling emperor being presented to Christ by a nimbed St. Michael. Christ is enthroned and holding the Gospels in his left hand.

After a fire in at the Doge’s Palace in Venice in 1577, some of the new decorations included paintings that celebrated important events in Venetian history. This oil sketch was for a large painting showing the Byzantine emperor Alexios IV Angelos…

Doge Enrico Dandolo died in 1205 and was buried in Hagia Sophia. During the 19th century restoration, the Italian team placed this marker near the probable location of his burial. The original tomb was destroyed by the Ottomans after the conquest of…

enthroned and nimbate Christ, IC – XC on either side of his head

The doge standing at left receiving a banner from St. Mark; inscription: ✠ • H • DANDOL' • S • M • VENETI

From “Croniques abregies commençans au temps de Herode Antipas, persecuteur de la chrestienté, et finissant l'an de grace mil IIc et LXXVI”

Full manuscript: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b550069168/f1.item

Commissioned by the last French King, Louis Philippe I, this painting by Delacroix shows Baldwin I of Constantinople leading the procession of crusaders through the streets of Constantinople. The painting was not particularly well received after its…

This set of four bronze horses that originally included a quadriga (chariot for racing), after the sack of Constantinople in 1204, the horses were placed on the exterior of St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, where they remained until Napoleon took them in…

The Historia covers the period from 1118 to 1207, and is noteworthy for its description of the occupation of Constantinople, an excerpt in English can be read here: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/choniates1.asp

The full manuscript, which…