Editing Fall of Constantinople (section)

===Cultural impact===
[[File:Zonaro GatesofConst.jpg|thumb|[[Mehmed the Conqueror]] enters Constantinople, painting by [[Fausto Zonaro]]]]

[[Guillaume Dufay]] composed several songs lamenting the fall of the Eastern church, and the [[duke of Burgundy]], [[Philip the Good]], [[Feast of the Pheasant|avowed]] to take up arms against the Turks. However, as the growing Ottoman power from this date on coincided with the [[Protestant Reformation]] and subsequent [[Counter-Reformation]], the recapture of Constantinople became an ever-distant dream. Even France, once a fervent participant in the Crusades, [[Franco-Ottoman alliance|became an ally of the Ottomans]].

Nonetheless, depictions of Christian coalitions taking the city and of the late Emperor's resurrection by [[Leo the Wise]] persisted.{{sfnp|Mango|2002|p=280}}

29 May 1453, the day of the fall of Constantinople, fell on a Tuesday, and since then [[Tuesday]] has been considered an unlucky day by Greeks generally.<ref name="QMrK6" />