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Byzantine blue is a color ranging from light celestial blue or lazuli to dark Egyptian blue. Variations. Dark Byzantine blue The dark ...
Obsidian talus at Obsidian Dome, California Polished snowflake obsidian, formed through the inclusion of cristobalite crystals. The Natural History by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder includes a few sentences about a volcanic glass called obsidian (lapis obsidianus), discovered in Ethiopia by Obsidius, a Roman explorer.
In heraldry, purpure (/ ˈ p ɜːr p j ʊər /) is a tincture, equivalent to the colour purple, and is one of the five main or most usually used colours (as opposed to metals).It may be portrayed in engravings by a series of parallel lines at a 45-degree angle running from upper right to lower left from the point of view of an observer, or else indicated by the abbreviation purp.
Palatinate or palatinate purple is a purple colour associated with Durham University and the County and City of Durham. [2] The term has been used to refer to a number of different shades of purple. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as a "light purple or lavender colour", which is used for Durham (and Newcastle) academic hoods . [ 2 ]
Byzantium Faith and Power (1261–1557). Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from the original on May 29, 2004. Note: Embroidered double-headed eagle on the podea of Paul, Patriarch of Constantinople (late 14th century) "Altar Cloth or Podea (of Paul, Patriarch of Constantinople)". Met Museum. Accession: 12.104.1. Gallery 303.
After 1204, the Byzantine Empire was partitioned into various successor states, with the Latin Empire in control of Constantinople. Following the Fourth Crusade, the Byzantine Empire had fractured into the Greek successor-states of Nicaea, Epirus, and Trebizond, with a multitude of Frankish and Latin possessions occupying the remainder, nominally subject to the Latin Emperors at Constantinople.
Byzantine silk is silk woven in the Byzantine Empire (Byzantium) from about the fourth century until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. The Byzantine capital of Constantinople was the first significant silk-weaving center in Europe.
It was common in Byzantium for mothers-in-law to raise daughters-in-law. [22] In 1094, Maria of Alania was implicated in an attempt to overthrow Alexios I Komnenos. [ 19 ] Some scholars argue that Anna's betrothal to Constantine Doukas may not have ended there, as he was not implicated in the plot against Alexios, [ 8 ] but it certainly ended ...