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Pavane for a Dead Princess: Part Eight 21 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
La vostra sorella Cleofe Palaologhina deo gratia Vasilisa della Morea # 5, to Paola. 28.6 x 21.5 cm. Brigitte Eckert recently went to Mantua, while on a trip to Venice, and photographed Cleofe's le....
On Vacation: Turkish Tulips 14 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
Needle tulip, ca. 1730. Dwarf's Purple, ca. 1725. 18th C. Anhegger Coll., Istanbul. Tulip by Ali Ali Üsküdarî, 1728. İstanbul University Library Ibrahim Bey's Scarlet, ca. 1725. Images from ...
On Vacation: The Scribe 7 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
Gouache and pen with ink on paper, 18.2 x 14 cm. 1479-1480? Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
Negroponte in 1395 31 Jul 2013 | 11:30 pm
How di Martoni would probably have appeared. Western merchants, fresco detail ca. 1400, Ag. Paraskevi, Halkis/Negroponte A recent entry concerned Negroponte and Evliya's 1668 account of the channel ...
The Cats of St. Nicholas 24 Jul 2013 | 08:06 pm
From the travelogue of Krištof Harant, 1608. Ben Arbel sent me his article, "Cypriot Wildlife in Renaissance Writings,"* which put me on to the cats of St. Nicholas. After looking on Google, I find m...
Endpapers 17 Jul 2013 | 07:04 pm
Images from ASVe Senato Mar b. 12. The drawings here are from the front and back pages of volume 12 of the Venetian Stato Mar registers which covers March 1484 through February 1485, that is, the yea...
Crow Summer 10 Jul 2013 | 07:26 pm
The weather and the crows have been splendid this summer. Two pairs -- one for the third summer -- have brought their fledglings to the crow feeder, and we have spent an inordinate amount of time watc...
O Palaiologos 3 Jul 2013 | 07:27 pm
ὉΠαλαιολόγος +·· Partial signature of John VIII Palaiologos, 1439 In mid-June I had a letter from Daniel Moss, a London dealer in historical letters and manuscripts, asking for my help in confirmin...
Demetrios fled to Galata 26 Jun 2013 | 07:18 pm
Constantinople and Galata, 15th C Florentine chest. MMA. Sphrantzes writes: In the summer of the same year (1423), the αὐθεντόπουλος Demetrios, accompanied by Ilario Doria and his son-in-law, George ...
How they died in Venice, Part Two 20 Jun 2013 | 07:05 pm
Detail from icon of church of S. Giorgio dei Greci. Georgios Klontzas, 16th C. Complete icon, 47 x 71.5 m. Museum of the Isituto Ellenico, Venice. The necrology for the Greek community in the parish...
