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Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, the Byzantine Emperor who preferred books and who offered us a detailed account of Byzantine ...
As specialists cleaned and studied the rooms in the Apostolic Palace, they learned new information about the Renaissance ...
The Vatican Museums has unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms. These are the spectacularly ...
Christians at the Council of Nicaea settled the foundational question of Jesus' nature at the Council of Nicaea 1700 years ...
One of only three surviving Byzantine crowns, it depicts a man and two sisters who jointly ruled the empire in the 11th ...
Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of Oxford, and the University of Innsbruck have ...
The best things come to those who wait - and that's certainly the case for the Room of Constantine. Taking a decade to complete, it's the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms at the ...
By Victoria Cardiel After a decade of painstaking restoration, the imposing Hall of Constantine in the Vatican’s Apostolic ...
Using carbonate fragments, researchers from Mainz, Oxford, and Innsbruck have deciphered the complex history of the Arles ...
Vatican Museums officials recounted the discoveries in inaugurating the hall, known as the Room of Constantine, after the last scaffolding came down. The reception room, which was painted by Raphael ...