Surprised by Time

The picture is of a chapel with vestiges--here a classical column built in, just right of the lower center. William Gell noted this site a...

Today, March 25, is the Feast of the Annunciation. The images that come to mind have their origins, not in the Gospel of Luke, but in the Pr...

KYMHTHPI ONANACCTA CIAC kymeterion anastasia s resting place of Anastasia Greek Christians of the 5th and 6th centur...

Zorzi Cernovich was, said Sanudo, "a most handsome man, tall, and dressed in gold like a Greek." This is not Zorzi, but he is dre...

+ Ἰωάννης ἐν Χριστῷ τῷ Θεῷ πιστὸς βασιλεὺς καὶ αὐτωκράτωρ ῥωμαίων ὁ Παλαιολόγος + This is the signature of John Palaiologos on the D...

There is a stone hand on either side of a door in the Venetian town of Maroulas, south-east of Rethymon. The town has few inhabitants: mostl...

This is de Chirico's sleeping Ariadne, perhaps not perfectly appropriate, but a sleeping Ariadne is needed.  At some time in the ...

The story of Kleope Malatesta and Theodoros II Palaiologos has already been told here, a version of it with what the research had shown u...

This is the olive tree from which Anastasios was hanged. That is the story that was told in the little book sold in the church next to the ...

This may be the loveliest picture in the world. Not the greatest, for which Count Orgaz is my current candidate, and Vermeer has a greater ...