the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the Byzantine capital.

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 the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

A new exhibition entitled PAINTED GOLD. El Greco and the Art between Crete and Venice has just opened at the Doge's Palace in ...