Seal of John VIII
Document of Union
6 July 1439
Bronze medal, 1439: Pisanello
Some of these images have been suggested
by various art historians as "portraits"
of John VIII , or were painted later,
based on artists' drawings and reports.
Manuel II
Thomas Palaiologos
Palaiologan Portraits
Signatures
Marriage "portrait" of John VIII and Anna of Russia
"Great" Sakkos of Photios, 1416 - 1418
Kremlin Museum, Moscow
ca. 13 x 13 cm.
Detail from The Flagellation, ca. 1460. Urbino
Piere della Francesca
Detail from Legend of the True Cross, 1466: Arezzo
Piero della Francesca
Detail: The Journey of the Magi.
Benozzo Gozzoli.1459-1461.
Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence, Italy.
Solomon .
Detail from Legend of the True Cross. 1466. Arezzo.
Piero della Francesca.
(possibly John)
From Miracles of St. Peter Martyr.1450s, Berlin
Antonio Vivarini
(possibly John)
Sleeping Constantine.
Detail from Legend of the True Cross. 1466. Arezzo.
Piero della Francesca.
(possibly John)
Detail from Miracles of S. Bernadino, 1480. Perugia.
attributed to Fiorenzo di Lorenzo.
Detail from Adoration of the Magi
Antonio Vivarini
, 1445 - 1447
John V, Manuel II, John VIII
Paris gr. 1783
Bust, 1439: Vatican Museums
Antonio Filarete
John as an Ottoman Sultan (used to portray Mehmed II and Suleiman the Magnificent)
Engraving, ca. 1475. Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
Anonymous Florentine
John VIII
Paris Suppl. gr. 1188, f. 4v.
John's image used to represent Mehmed II
Nuremburg Chronicle
Liber Chronicarum, 1493, folio 256v