"I have not seen the original painting and cannot judge it exactly ... "Caterina was an immigrant, she suffered a lot: she passed through Constantinople, Venice, and Florence, she learned the ...

The painting of icons was primarily a spiritual ... it was natural for the leaders of Constantinople to encourage the people to look back to that great moment of 843, when the faith had been ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine ... The tradition of painting the same, or similar, images of saints and holy people is meant to ...

An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time since its recent rediscovery. The portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey ...