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Showing posts with label Jacopo Barbarigo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacopo Barbarigo. Show all posts
08 January 2014

What happened to the archons?

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Probable representation of an archon,  Andreas Pavias, Crucifixion, late 15th C. Archons essentially disappear in 1460 with t...
12 April 2013

The leading men of the Morea

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Detail, Klontzas, Passion The earliest documentary evidence for Krokodylos Kladas seems to be a letter from Jacopo Barbarigo of 25 J...
16 October 2012

Stratioti, numbers, horses

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Chesepritri* off the coast of Candia, south of Tolo.  Mid-16th C, redrawn 18th C. From the Bibliothèque Nationale , Paris, identifi...
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28 July 2012

The Frescos of Longanikos

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Main street, Longanikos. Longanikos is a wonderfully severe town, with massive stone buildings and ruins on the steep hillside above ...
17 September 2008

A Fate Worse than Death

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Rossini's opera, The Siege of Corinth -- L'assedio di Corinto , is not an experience to be undertaken lightly, say, the way one woul...
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