With construction having begun in the 16 th century, this basilica is the result of many Renaissance artists having worked ..

Palazzo Papadopoli,, the lavish setting in Venice for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's wedding, carries a deep and enduring ...

Palazzo Papadopoli,, the lavish setting in Venice for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's wedding, carries a deep and enduring ...

Ezio Auditore da Firenze (June 24, 1459 – 1524) was a Florentine noble during the Italian Renaissance and, unbeknownst to most historians and ...

The City as vision: Prophecy, ideology, and the Megali Idea The fall of Constantinople, paradoxically, became a unifier. Despite regional identities, all Greeks looked to the City as a spiritual ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a ...

June 10, 1905 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from June 10, 1905, Section REVIEW, Page 371 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine ...

VISUAL ART REVIEW At Harvard, a map-making Renaissance An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever-changing ...

Winnipeg Art Gallery, 300 Memorial Blvd. Friday, 7.30 p.m. Tickets $10-$48 at virtuosiconcerts.ca Supplied Constantinople is Mediterranean and Middle Eastern medieval and baroque music.

The Assassin's Creed series has taken us to many locales, and these are by far the best settings we've visited in the games.

In 1453, as the ancient walls of Constantinople crumbled under Ottoman cannons, an unexpected chain of events was set in motion that would reshape the course of human knowledge. The fall of ...