Surprised by Time

The Palaiologos cross between four firesteel s ( πυρέκβολα ) each resembling a B which are also said to have originally been Bs that we...

Dancers, based on a drawing by Cyriaco.  He may have been trying to draw these Samothraki dancers . In August 1446, Cyriaco of Ancon...

Constance  Austin Shaw, 1922  The house was looking dull, once the Christmas traces were removed and too much grey January was lurk...

Byzantine plaque placed in modern times to mark the crowning of Constantine XI, which probably never happened. Ag. Demetrios, Mistra...

  Bride, Marriage at Cana - Ο Γάμος στην Κανά  Ag. Nikolaos Orfanos, Thessaloniki When the fifteen-year old Helena Palaiologina ...

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

Thrush, House of Livia, Rome              THE NEW SONG For some time I thought there was time and that there would always be...

There are four dolphins on each of two candlesticks in this household. They were made in Athens about seventy years ago -- Renaissance...

  He lived in the countess's work-basket and nobody knew he was Fitzi Futzi. * * * * *   This is the first sentence of a book I...

Bettina's mother, Gunda Brettano von Sevigny, drawn by Ludvig Emil Grimm. In November 1834, Bettina Schinas and her husband were p...