Artful Stylistic Doors , Gates and Entrances – Doors control people access , their decoration is meant to convey the prestige and privilege granted.
Doors and Entrances – London & UK
Signs, Lights, and Art Fixtures – UK
Artful Epoch Signs, Lights and Fixtures
Architectural Art
Artful structures bringing culture to life.
Architecture is a combination of Utility and Art reflecting the Society’s Historic appreciation of itself , its achievements and wealth in a rather public setting.
Elements In This Section have two sub-sections, Architecture and Architectural Fixtures .
Art of Life
The Art of Everyday Life through everyday objects in everyday environments but not exactly Andy Warhole’s Campbell soup painting … we are a little bit more selective and posh darlings 🙂 in our approach to avant garde Art.
Architectural Art Fixtures
Artful structures bringing culture to life
UK in Focus
Art and Architecture In the UK – The Times, The People, The Society
HISTORICAL MAPS
Islamic Turkish Map Of Greece Circa 1880-1912
Historical Portraits
Period Images and fairly accurate reconstructions that convey the essence of past times with character and emotion, largely elitist and European centric to include Russia and Middle Eastern to include Iran and North Africa .
1119 A.D. Emperor John Komninos 2nd and Irene of Hungary (Ο Ιωάννης Β’ Κομνηνός και η Ειρήνη της Ουγγαρίας)
530 A.D. Augusta (Queen) Theodora of Byzantium (Αυγούστα Θεοδώρα)
Augusta (Empress) Theodora 497-548A.D. One of the most influential and powerful of the Eastern Roman empresses, albeit from a humble background.
1200A.D. Boukoleon Palace Constantinople (Παλάτι του Βουκολέοντα)
Βουκολέων – Boukoleon palace was the main palace for the Byzantine court until the 11th century, when the Palace of Blachernae was built by the Komnenos dynasty.
1200A.D. Forum of Augustus Theodosius (Φόρος (Πυλη) Θεοδοσίου)
Forum of Augustus Theodosius, Built by Augustus Constantine I and named Forum Tauri (Forum of the Bull) later it was renamed after (Emperor) Theodosius I, in the middle of the forum was a Roman triumphal column erected in honour of Emperor Theodosius I. 400A.D. with additions thereafter.
The forum of Theodosius led to the Philadelphion which was a public square branching into 2 main roads into Constantinople. Built initially in 280A.D. with additions thereafter.
more soon ……
Art
Greek And Ottoman Financial Instruments
Following the fall of Constantinople in 1453, all of Byzantine empire of which Greece was the dominant ethnicity and culture became part of Ottoman Turkey with the majority of Greeks eventually converting into Moslems aquiring a mostly ‘fake’ Turkish ethnicity.
Nontheless many Greeks and others identifying as Christians/westerners kept their religion and eventually gained independence in parts of the Ottoman empire.
This collection follows the mostly ‘Greek’ commercial experience (often of assimilated Jews) in the Ottoman state and later independent successor state of modern Greece, through the medium of financial instruments up to 1922 .
As Islamic religion was hostile to money lending it was Greeks, Italians, Armenians and Jews who were in charge of finance in the Ottoman empire.