It is also the “last chronologically preserved portrait of an emperor in Byzantine monumental painting,” added the Ministry of Culture. “As a portrait it is not idealistic or standardized.

The city’s Sienese School of Art was founded in that century and followed a few tenets from the Byzantine and Medieval Gothic schools of art that preceded it. Byzantine heritage includes a profuse use ...

A new department dedicated to Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox Christian art is expected to open at the Musée du Louvre in 2027 ...

“The mosaics and frescoes in the Chora are the most beautiful examples dating from the last period of the Byzantine painting (14th century)", the official website for the Chora Museum says ...