Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ages.

The Daphni Monastery in Athens is one of the greatest Byzantine masterpieces and an example of architecture and religious ...

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, Constantine XI Palaiologos (Feb. 8 1404 – May 29 1453), dubbed the last Christian ...

It is an authentic portrait, which accurately reflects the physiognomic characteristics of the last Byzantine emperor,” stated the Ministry of Culture. “He is an earthly figure, a mature man ...