Belisarius
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Flavius Belisarius (505-565) was general of the Byzantine Empire.
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The enlargment of the Byzantine Empire possessions between the rise to power of Justinian (red, 527) and his death (orange, 565). Belisarius contributed greatly to the expansion of the empire.
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Belisarius may be the bearded figure on Emperor Justinian I's right in the mosaic in the Church of San Vitale, Ravenna
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The outcast Belisarius receiving hospitality from a Peasant by Jean-François Pierre Peyron
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Bélisaire, by François-André Vincent, 1776. Belisarius, blinded, a beggar, is recognised by one of his former soldiers
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Belisar as a beggar, as depicted in popular legend, in the painting by Jacques-Louis David (1781)
