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Constantinople depicted in the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) written by Hartmann Schedel, illustrated by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
The Gardens of the Seraglio with European visitors inspecting the Column of the Goths, Constantinople
Watercolor by Michel-François Préaulx (ca. 1800-1820) @V_and_A
Arch and Rotunda of Galerius in Thessaloniki
Black chalk and watercolor by Louis François Sébastien Fauvel (1793)
“The Grand Vizier Crossing the Atmeydanı” by Jean Baptiste Vanmour (1720-1737)
Atmeydanı (“Horse Square”), the former site of Constantinople’s Hippodrome, continued to be an important ceremonial space in the Ottoman era
Reconstruction of Hagia Sophia's interior by E.M. Antoniadi (1907)
Byzantine Constantinople from the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel (1493)
"Frozen Bosphorous" (1874) and "Frozen Bosphorus under Snow" (1874) by Ivan Aivazovsky and photos of the last time the Bosphorus froze in 1954
Kariye Mosque (formerly Chora Monastery) was known as the “Mosaic Mosque” in the Late Ottoman period
Photos by Sébah & Joaillier (1890s)
Christ's entry into Jerusalem
Palatine Chapel at Palermo
The Annunciation by Andrei Rublev (early 15th century)
In the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow