Byzas, mythical founder of Byzantium (Constantinople, now Istanbul) and king of the city at the time of the Argonauts. Profile of bearded man in crested helmet. Byzas Heros. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his LAcademia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.
Byzas, mythical founder of Byzantium (Constantinople, now Istanbul) and king of the city at the time of the Argonauts. Profile of bearded man in crested helmet. Byzas Heros. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his LAcademia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.