25 September 2013

Two stratioti portraits

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(Stratiote) Male profile bust, 1477-1491, V& A, London. 48 x 47 cm. One of my correspondents, Pavlos Plessas, sent me these rem...
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18 September 2013

The Twins

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I have been accompanying the Book of Ceremonies with the pictures from the Skylitzes Chronicle ( download it here ).  Admittedly, the...
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11 September 2013

Ceremonies, Part Two

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Court attendants waiting. As I read the 10th C    Book of Ceremonies , the main emphases are dress and waiting. And interior deco...
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04 September 2013

Ceremonies, Part One

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Nikephoros III Botaniates, 1078-1081, (updated from a portrait of Michael VII Doukas, 1067-1078) I have been rejoicing in the new Eng...
28 August 2013

Hummingbird

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Our female Anna's hummingbird in the snow last winter.  She lives in the shrubbery next door and we have never been able to find ...
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21 August 2013

Pavane for a Dead Princess: Part Eight

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La vostra sorella Cleofe Palaologhina  deo gratia Vasilisa della Morea # 5, to Paola. 28.6 x 21.5 cm. Brigitte Eckert rece...
14 August 2013

On Vacation: Turkish Tulips

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Needle tulip, ca. 1730. Dwarf's Purple, ca. 1725.   18th C. Anhegger Coll., Istanbul. Tulip by Ali  ...
07 August 2013

On Vacation: The Scribe

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Gouache and pen with ink on paper, 18.2 x 14 cm. 1479-1480? Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
31 July 2013

Negroponte in 1395

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How di Martoni would probably have appeared. Western merchants, fresco detail ca. 1400, Ag. Paraskevi, Halkis/Negroponte A rece...