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…
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 lip band features fifteen enamel plaques, however this configuration is not original. Christ and John the Baptist would have been placed together, opposite the Virgin Mary who is flanked by angels. The spaces between them would have been filled…
Written by Geoffrey of Villehardouin, knight and crusader and therefore eyewitness. The work is written as an epic in the third person. Here, the initial "S" contained a depiction of Foulques of Neuilly preaching about the Fourth Crusade. The detail…
a. Commissioned to mark the return to Eastern Orthodoxy in the Hagia Sophia, bringing an end of 57 years of Roman Catholic usage. It shows the central figure of Christ flanked by the Virgin Mary (left) and John the Baptist (right). The Deësis (in…
Looted by Crusaders in Constantinople and currently in the treasury of San Marco. The Surrounding plaques feature images of paired military saints, at the top, Christ is flanked by Saints Peter and Menas.
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…