Following the capture of Constantinople, Mehmed II claimed the title Caesar of the Roman Empire and commissioned various portraits of himself, including an oil painting by Gentile Bellini ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks ... in Orthodox art. The tradition of painting ...

The players are present-day Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), the ... not of conflict but of reciprocal art and culture, “Venice and the Ottoman Empire” shines on multiple fronts.