Prospect of the Ruins of Rome in the Fifteenth Century-Four Cases of Decay and Destruction-Example of the Coliseum-Renovation of the City- ILLUSTRATIONS (SELECTED BY 0. M. DALTON, M.A., F.S.A.) MEDAL OF MAHOMET (MOHAMMED) II. by Costanzo (fl. about 1480). In the collection of Henry Oppenheimer, Esq. Frontispiece VIEW OF BROUSSA (Prusa) in Anatolia, showing the mosque of Sultan Murad PAGE 26 ... From a Photograph by Sébah and Joaillier. PORTRAIT OF A MONGOLIAN personage conjecturally described as Timur, from a Persian MS. of the late 16th century, in the collection of the late Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. (See Man, published by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1907, p. 135) ... THE GUR AMIR, or Tomb of Timur, at Samarcand (A.D. 1405). Within this building the remains of the Conqueror lie under a huge block of jade From The Heart of Asia, by F. H. Skrine and E. Denison Ross, 1899. MEDAL OF JOHN PALAEOLOGUS, by Pisanello ... ... 44 ... 68 82 ... LATE BYZANTINE ART: panel painting, perhaps of the 14th century, represent MISTRA, in the Morea; general view, showing the Byzantine, town MISTRA; Church of the Evangelistria; 14th century From a Photograph by M. G. Millet; Collection des Hautes Études, Sor- SCANDERBEG; from the early portrait which serves as frontispiece to M. Bar- 156 172 186 and was written in Greek the week after the capture of Constantinople. ... ... ... Egerton MS. 2817, British Museum. ... ... ... PAGE ... 200 LATE BYZANTINE ART; part of a fresco in the Church of the Peribleptos at ... ... From a Photograph by M. G. Millet, in the Collection des Hautes Études, MOSQUE OF SULTAN SELIM at Constantinople ... From a Photograph by Sébah and Joaillier. MEDIAEVAL ROME; cloisters of the Lateran, early 13th century, the work of Vassallettus ... ... MEDIAEVAL ROME; the Tor de' Conti, 13th century. The tower is all that 3. Silver asper of John II., Emperor of Trebizond (A.D. 1280-1297). |
