Surprised by Time

(Stratiote) Male profile bust, 1477-1491, V& A, London. 48 x 47 cm. One of my correspondents, Pavlos Plessas, sent me these rem...

Soldiers in the Panagia, at Skafi-Prodromi, Crete. John Pagomenos, 1347. When Piero Brunoro of San Vidal died in Negroponte in 1461, h...

North side of Panagia, in Nauplion, originally a 15th-century church, possibly the Franciscan church of S. Maria Val Verde. Possibly no...

One of several pairs of blue soldier legs: Rethymnon district. Another pair of legs here . By 1444, there was no army in the Morea...

  Sketch of a Turk, Gentile Bellini, 1480. A couple of years after Minio arranged for pardons for the stratioti who participated in the ...

  One of the galleries at Tiryns, Minio's Castellazo. On 9 October 1480, the Greek kapetanios Krokondelos Kladas led a company of stra...

In 1470, after Nicolò da Canale helped lose Negroponte to Mehmed II, Venice replaced him as Captain General of the Fleet with Pietro Moce...

   Manessis icon, 1546 S. Giorgio dei Greci , Venice, (probably) Comin Manessis, d. 1565    There are very few pictures of ...