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The Byzantine Legacy
@ByzantineLegacy
Art, architecture, and history from Late Antique, Early Christian, and the Byzantine eras
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Apr 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Mosaics of Late Antique church include depictions of the personifications of the Four Rivers of Paradise
Hadrianoupolis in Paphlagonia / Karabük, Turkey More Mosaics of Late Antique church at Hadrianoupolis in Paphlagonia / Karabük, Turkey
Sep 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
A new collection of essays introducing Byzantine architecture by Dr. Robert Ousterhout now available at Smarthistory @Smarthistory
smarthistory.org/author/robert-… Image Mosaics and Microcosm: the Monasteries of Hosios Loukas, Nea Moni, and Daphni @Smarthistory
by DR. EVAN FREEMAN
smarthistory.org/mosaics-and-mi…
Sep 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Seals of patriarchs of Constantinople, Ignatios, (847-58, 867-77) and Photios (858-67, 877-86) at Dumbarton Oak @DumbartonOaks ImageImageImageImage Ἰησοῦ Χριστὲ Κύριε ἡγοῦ Ἰγνατίου ἀρχιεπισκόπου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Νέας Ῥώμης.
"Lord Jesus Christ, guide Ignatios, archbishop [patriarch] of Constantinople, the New Rome." @DumbartonOaks
doaks.org/resources/seal… Image
Sep 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The “Emperor Triumphant” (Barberini Ivory) at the Louvre perhaps depicts Justinian or Anastasius Image The upper register depicts Christ making a gesture of blessing. He is surrounded by symbols of the sun, the moon, and a star in a medallion flanked by flying angels. Image
Sep 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Mosaic of boys playing a chariot racing game at the Great Palace Mosaic Museum ImageImageImageImage Details of chariot racing game (twirling hoops with sticks around a representation of the hippodrome) at the Great Palace Mosaic Museum ImageImageImageImage
Aug 27, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Late Antique Jewish relief of menorah, fresco of Theotokos Hodegetria from St. Nicholas Church in Myra, and other Byzantine artifacts from the Lycian Civilizations Museum in Hadrian's Granary of Lycian city Andriake (Demre, Turkey)
Photos taken last week ImageImageImageImage Orthodox icons and bell from the Lycian Civilizations Museum in Hadrian's Granary of Lycian city Andriake (Demre, Turkey)
Photos taken last week ImageImageImageImage
Aug 23, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Chora ImageImageImageImage Photo album of the Parekklesion of Chora flickr.com/photos/byzants…
Aug 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Ruins of Lycian city Xanthos (near Kınık, Turkey)
Photos taken today ImageImageImageImage Ancient tombs of Xanthos
Photos taken today ImageImageImageImage
Jul 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Women of Late Antique Constantinople
Bust of a Woman with a Scroll (c.500)
MET@metmuseum
Theodora and women of her imperial court (6th c)
San Vitale, Ravenna
Byzantine Empress, possibly Ariadne (c.500)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Possibly Empress Flaccilla (c.380s)
MET ImageImageImageImage Bust of a Woman with a Scroll (late 4th–early 5th c.)
At MET, NYC
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Head, possibly Empress Flaccilla (ca. 380–390)
metmuseum.org/art/collection…
Byzantine Empress , possibly Ariadne (ca. 500)
At Kunst historisches Museum, Vienna
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Jul 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Strolling along the Theodosian Walls
Photos taken today ImageImageImageImage Theodosian Walls and Yedikule Gardens
Photos taken today ImageImageImageImage
May 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Constantinople’s Theodosian Walls were built in the 5th century, while additional walls were later added to the Blachernai (Ayvansaray) region
Sultan Mehmet II conquered Constantinople on May 29, 1453 ImageImageImageImage flickr.com/photos/byzants…
May 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Mosaic of the Ascension of Christ in the dome of Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki
Today is the Feast of the Holy Ascension ImageImageImageImage Inscription in the dome of Thessaloniki’s Hagia Sophia from Acts 1:11
“Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” Image
May 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Cistern of St. Mocius was a huge open-air water reservoir near an important basilica dedicated to the local martyr named St. Mocius
Today is the feast day of St. Mocius ImageImageImageImage The Cistern of St. Mocius has been attributed to the reign of Anastasius, which brickstamps from the cistern seem to confirm. It is 170 x 147 meters and was at least 12 meters deep, while its ashlar walls are around 6 meters thick. It had a capacity of around 300,000 cubic meters
Apr 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Yoros Castle (Istanbul), Hagia Sophia (Nicaea/İznik), Kara Kilise (Yalova), and Panagia Pantobasilissa (Tirilye)

Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 13: "Bithynien und Hellespont" by Klaus Belke has been published open access
austriaca.at/8329-7?frames=… ImageImageImageImage Hagios Aberikos (Kurşunlu/Bursa), Aydos Castle (Istanbul), Pelekete Monastery (Tirilye), and Lopadion Fortress (Uluabat)

Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 13: "Bithynien und Hellespont" by Klaus Belke has been published open access
austriaca.at/8329-7?frames=… ImageImageImageImage
Mar 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Opus sectile of the Basilica of Junius Bassus, a civil basilica built in 331 on the Esquiline Hill in Rome ImageImageImageImage 1. Charioteer (probably Junius Bassus, consul and praefectus urbi of Rome) with horsemen wearing the colors of the chariot factions (the Reds, Blues, Greens, and Whites) at Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
2. Panel with rape of Hylas by Nymphs at Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
Jan 30, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Façade on the Marmara Sea Walls are often identified as the substructures of Christ Philanthropos Monastery. It is currently under restoration ImageImageImageImage Substructures of Christ Philanthropos Monastery (and view from the Marmara Sea) ImageImageImageImage
Dec 31, 2019 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Happy New Years! Thank you very much for following.
Some photos of sites visited in 2019
1. Peristyle of Diocletian’s Palace in Split, Croatia
2. Parigoritissa at Arta, Greece
3. Byzantine Bath at Thessaloniki, Greece
4. Mosaics of the Amphitheatre of Durrës/Dyrrachium, Albania ImageImageImageImage Happy New Years! Thank you very much for following
More photos of sites visited in 2019 ImageImageImageImage
Dec 27, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Capitoline Venus, a 2nd century AD Roman copy of Aphrodite of Knidos created by Praxiteles in the 4th century BC. It seems that the original statue was brought to Constantinople and placed in the Palace of Lausos in the early 5th century AD Image Capitoline Venus is slightly different from the original, which probably depicted the Aphrodite’s gesture of modesty with only one hand, rather than with two as seen in this Roman copy.
Oct 8, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Apse Mosaic with Christ Hyperagathos at Pammakaristos/Fethiye Mosque Image Apse Inscription
On behalf of her husband, Michael Glabas, who accomplished great deeds and held the office of protostrator, Martha the nun <has offered> this pledge of salvation to God.
Sep 18, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Jonah Marbles (3rd Century)
Apparently from the region of Afyon, Turkey
At the Cleveland Museum of Art ImageImageImageImage The story of Jonah was depicted in Christian funereal contexts. "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." Matthew 12:40
Jul 21, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“ΜΑΝΟΥΗΛ ΕΝ ΧΡΙΣΤꙌ ΤꙌ ΘΕꙌ ΠΙCΤΟC ΒΑCΙΛΕΥC ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤꙌΡ ΡꙌΜΑΙꙌΝ Ο ΠΑΛΑΙΟΛΟΓΟC”
“Manuel faithful in Christ, emperor and autocrat of the Romans”
From Funeral Oration of Manuel II Palaiologos for His Brother Theodore (1409-1411)
Now at Bibliotheque Nationale de France Image Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos died on July 21 as the monk Matthew and was buried at the Pantokrator Monastery ImageImageImageImage