Max Crandale
Times readers’ underrated destinations of the world – Kariye Museum, Istanbul,...
Istanbul is long known as a city endowed with layer upon layer of cultural riches dating from ancient times. But beyond the obvious sites...
Paul Atkins Underwood
Date born: 1902
Place Born: Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Date died: 1968
Place died: Knoxville, TN
Byzantinist and Dumbarton Oaks scholar. Underwood's father was a Presbyterian missionary in Puerto...
St. Savior in Chora (Kariye Müzesi; formerly the Kariye Camii)
Much of what remained in the coffers of the Byzantine Empire was invested in the embellishment of this church, one of the finest preserved...
Thomas Whittemore
In 1948, Thomas Whittemore (1871 - 1950) and Paul A. Underwood, from the Byzantine Institute of America and the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies,...
Mosaics and Frescoes
A well preserved, lavishly decorated Byzantine church like the Chora can be read on severaldifferent levels. For the simple monk of Byzantine times or...