The Night Before the Siege

Digital drawing, archival pigment inkjet print on fine art paper, Limited edition of 5, 42 x 29.7 cm, 350 USD

It was the night before the final attack. Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, had been under siege for two months and its great walls were crumbling from constant cannon fire. One final push and it would all be over. The light from the soldiers’ campfires mixed with those raging over the walls, turning the night into a veritable fireball. Sultan Mehmed walked through his army’s camp. Tomorrow, he thought, tomorrow! We will prevail against the infidels! And history will know me as The Conqueror!