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Year. 1438. Type. cast bronze, and other metals. Dimensions. 10.3 cm (4.1 in) The medal of John VIII Palaeologus is a portrait medal by the Italian Renaissance artist Pisanello. It is generally considered to be the first portrait medal of the Renaissance. [1] [2] [3] On the obverse of the medal is a profile portrait of the penultimate Byzantine ...
Belsky family (Gediminid) For other people named Belsky, see Belsky (surname). The Belsky or Belski family ( Russian: Бельский; plural: Бельские) was a Ruthenianized princely family of Gediminid origin in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It later defected to the Grand Duchy of Moscow and played a key role during the regency of Ivan ...
Biography[edit] Theodore Paleologus was the oldest [3] surviving son of his father by the same name and Mary Balls. He was baptised on 30 April 1609 (meaning he was probably born that month). [4] Theodore's family might have been the last living members of the Palaiologos dynasty, [5] [6] which ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1259 to 1453. [7]
After the death of his first consort, Maria of Tver (1467), Ivan III wedded Sophia Paleologue (also known by her original Greek and Orthodox name of Zoe), daughter of Thomas Palaeologus , despot of Morea, who claimed the throne of Constantinople as the brother of Constantine XI, last Byzantine emperor, at the suggestion of Pope Paul II (1469 ...
Sophia Paleologue, là một hoàng tộc của Đế quốc Đông La Mã. Bà được biết đến là vợ của Vasili III Ivanovich, là bà nội của Ivan IV Lôi đế, trở thành Sa hoàng đầu tiên của Nga. Cuộc đời
Sophia ( Koinē Greek: σοφία, sophía —"wisdom") is a central idea in Hellenistic philosophy and religion, Platonism, Gnosticism and Christian theology. Originally carrying a meaning of "cleverness, skill", the later meaning of the term, close to the meaning of phronesis ("wisdom, intelligence"), was significantly shaped by the term ...
Western Armenia under Russian occupation in the summer of 1916. The Sazonov–Paléologue Agreement was a 26 April 1916 letter from Russian Foreign minister Sergey Sazonov to French ambassador to Russia Maurice Paléologue regarding Western Armenia and the Anglo-French Sykes–Picot Agreement. The agreement for Russia influence over Western ...
