Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Istanbul

A Rare image of Emperor Septimius Severus -- painted on wood. shown here with his wife Julia Domn and their children Caracella and Get (Geta's face had been erased). Both Septimius and Caracalla commissioned extensive building works for Byzantine, including the erection of the Milion, from which all distances in the Roman Empire were measured.

Illumination said to show julian the Apostate's flayed body, from 'The Fall of Princes' by John Lydgate. the author probably confused Julian witg the Emperor Valerian, who did suffer such afate -- a reminder of the tangled web we have to unpick when studying medival sources.,

Mosaic image of Emperor Justian in the Basilia of San Vitale, Revenna. thie church building began when Revenna was still undr Gothic rule and he mosiac was completed in AD 548 when Justinian had recaputured many Roman lands

The mosaics from the Great Palace, hidden beneath the Blue Mosque from AD 1606 and rediscovered in the 1930s and 1950s, including most exquisite detail.. Here children ride camels

The painting of the Six Kings, an early Islamic fresco from Qast Amra, an Umayyad castle complex dating to the early eighth century AD. Four of the six kings can still be identified, including an unknown Byzantine Emperor (far left, in the blue patterned robe) whose face has been lost

Painting by Laura Lushington of a synagogue in Istanbul, based on an 1848 engraving. Jewish communities thrived in Istanbul for at least 1,600 years

Constantinople was often portrayed as the goddess Aphrodite. On the Esquiline treasure, made C AD 380 and discovered on Rome’s Esquiline Hill, she joins the other major cities of the late Roman Empire as a “Tyche”, the tutelary deity of a city. Tyche was the daughter of Aphrodite and Zeus. Constantinople carries a cornucopia, all image of bounty

The burial shroud of Charlemagne, who chose to be buried in purple-dyed cloth decorated with gold thread made in Constantinople. Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in AD 800 and died AD 814

‘Le Bain Turc’ by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, painted in AD 1862. For over 400 years composers, writers and artists including Mozart, Edward Clark and Matisse found a rich seam in the subject of the enclosed rooms of female pleasure-givers – Particularly the richest of all, the ‘seraglio’, the harem of the Sultan in Istanbul. Ingres La Baigneuse Valpincon was inspired by Lady Mary Wortley Montagnu’s writings, but his subject became overlaid with an erotic, sexual content that Montagu had explicitly left unsaid, precisely because it was also unseen.

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