In the exhibition titled Poetics of Chunyang: Transgression and Invocation of A Tradition, Chinese artist Li Chunyang, ...

How to crush a nation’s soul: The Nazi crusade against “degenerate” art The Third Reich sought to cleanse Germany of "decadent" art. Maybe it's just a history lesson with no relevance ...

Crusaders at the City’s gates: ... The Crusade of 1204—after which Constantinople never really recovered—is a good starting point. ... Our iconography influenced Hindu and Muslim art.

First built in Constantinople in 360 CE and dedicated by the Roman Emperor Constantius II (son of Constantine, the founder of Constantinople), the initial, wood-constructed Hagia Sophia burned ...

After Constantinople fell during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the structure was converted into a Catholic church. When the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II conquered Byzantium in 1453, the Hagia Sophia ...

It was taken to Constantinople (now Istanbul) and presented to the Emperor. 1204 A.D. - Constantinople was invaded by the Fourth Crusade, and the revered cloth disappeared. Some historians believe, ...

The film depicts the events surrounding the First Crusade, starting with Sir William of Mont breth and his sons, Philip and Steven, who respond to Pope Urban II's call to liberate the Holy Land ...

The fourth crusade, 1204 Conquest of Constantinople by the 1204 crusaders. Miniature in La Conquete de Constantinople by Geoffroy de Villehardouin, Venetian ms, c. 1330.

The Latin Crusaders, under the leadership of Count Baldwin of Flanders and the Doge of Venice, Dandolo, seized Constantinople at the command of Emperor Isaac II Angelus, who had been dethroned but ...

The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was one of the most powerful and enduring civilisations in world history. It began in AD 330 when the Roman Emperor Constantine I declared ...