Attributed to the workshop of Apolloni di Giovanni di Tomaso, Italian, said to come from the Palazzo Strozzi. The front panel depicts a battle at the city of Trebizond, Constantinople is at the upper left. The battle shows the fall of Trebizond to…
Part of the series of defensive walls surrounded the city, various stages of the walls’ construction date back to the Roman Empire, with some evidence of the existence of the citadel (in its earliest construction) dating back as far as 2000 BCE. Most…
The original murals on the front of the Panagia Theoskepastos Monastery (“Panagia the God-guarded”) or the Kızlar Monastery, a former female monastery founded during the reign of Alexios III (r. 1349-90). It is at the foot of the Boztepe mountain and…
Texier was a French historian, architect, and archaeologist. He published numerous works following his travels throughout Asia Minor and the Middle East covering topics ranging from geography and geology, to art and architecture.
Built in Trebizond during the reign of Manuel I between 1238 and 1263, there is carved graffiti in the apses dating to 1291 and 1293. The church was converted into a mosque after the conquest Mehmed II in 1461, however some scholars suggest that the…
Grandson of Andronikos I, and the brother of the first emperor of Trebizond, Alexios I Komnenos (1204-22), whom David helped take the throne. David was killed while defending Sinope from an attack by the Seljuqs in 1214.
Detail depicting Alexios (r. 1349-90) and his wife, Theodora. The Chrysobull was to the Dionysiou monastery on Mount Athos. The Chrysobull gave the founder of the monastery a sum of 100 somia of silver (about 1000 gold hyperpyra) in order to build…