The artist had been a student of Bellini (first taught under his brother Gentile Bellini) in Venice, where the older artist was one of the city’s leading masters. Towards the end of Bellini’s ...

But in 1453, when Ottoman sultan Mehmed II (a.k.a. Mehmed the Conqueror) captured Constantinople, his victory paved the way for the Ottoman Empire, which would last until 1922. To suggest to the ...

Dracula's nemesisVlad III’s archenemy Sultan Mehmed II had this portrait painted in 1480 by Gentile Bellini, an Italian painter of the Venetian school. It's now at the National Gallery in London.

The portrait, painted in the 15th century by the Italian painter Gentile Bellini, is one of three that were painted in the lifetime of the Ottoman Sultan, who led the siege that culminated in the ...

Rare photos reveal the Sultan of Brunei’s secretive car collection, featuring thousands of exotics. Numerous cars were built specifically for the Sultan, including a Bentley Dominator and ...

During the Ottoman siege of Constantinople, Sultan Mehmed II devised a brilliant strategy by transporting Ottoman ships overland to the Golden Horn, crippling Byzantine defenses. Meanwhile ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos was born on February 8, 1405, the eighth of ten children of Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and ... Constantinople by the army of Mehmed the Conqueror. Portrait of Mehmed the ...

"However, when Sultan Mehmed II (Dominic Cooper) demands 1,000 of the country's boys, including Vlad's son, for his army, Vlad makes a deal with a monster that will enable him to defeat the Turks ...