Project: Visual reconstruction of De Ceremoniis

 As I grow more interest in Byzantine rituals and bureaucracy, I want to work on visual reconstruction of  De Ceremoniis. This project aims to help me better understand Byzantine culture, and the visualization/reconstruction will also help support the worldbuilding of my comic. 

The first chapter I chose to work is Book I, Chapter 43: The Investiture of a Caesar. 



Annotation:

1. Portrait of Constantine VII is based on Wing of ivory triptych with St Constantine, Dumbarton Oaks Collection.

2. Different tagmata are represented among the troops in this picture, so different military insignias were used — one has the Chi Rho symbol and another depecting a military saint.

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