Medieval Europe in Pics
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Ivory crozier (staff of authority for a bishop or abbot), made by an unknown French artist in the 1350s. Side A depicts the Virgin and Child, attended by angels bearing candles. Side B depicts the crucified Christ, flanked by the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist. The crozier is now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
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Angels in the city: British Museum
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A Viking war-band attacks the French town of Guérande. Illustration from a manuscript of the Life of St. Aubin d'Angers, executed ca. 1100. Now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
(via thecrankyprofessor)
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#MetalMonday :
ALTHanging Lamp in the Form of a Peacock
Byzantine, 6th-7th c.
Copper alloy, cast
Dimensions: lamp: 6 x 6 x 2 1/16 in. (15.2 x 15.2 x 5.3 cm) / cross on chain: 2 5/16 x 1 1/8 x 3/8 in. (5.9 x 2.8 x 1 cm) / overall (with object suspended): 14 5/8 x 6 x 2 1/16 in. (37.1 x 15.2 x 5.3 cm)
On display at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (61.111a, b)
“Conjuring images of the garden of paradise and heavenly splendor, the peacock became a Christian symbol in the 300s.”
(via homerstroystory)
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Ollesheim madonna
* Köln, c. 1260-1270
* beech, polychrome
* Schnütgen Museum
Cologne, November 2017
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Fragment with Botanical Decoration, 6th-7th century C.E., Brooklyn Museum: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Size: 9 ¼ x 18 1/8 in. (23.5 x 46 cm)
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Solidus of Maurice Tiberius, 583, Cleveland Museum of Art: Medieval Art
Emperor Caesar Flavius Maurice Tiberius, “faithful in Christ, mild, majestic, bountiful, peaceable; victor over the Alemanni, Goths, the Antae, Vandals, Heruls, Gepids, in Africa: pious, fortunate, renowned victorious and triumphant, ever august”
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Noble, 1363, Cleveland Museum of Art: Medieval Art
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Church of St. Stephen Mosaics in Umm Ar-Rasas, Jordan
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The Town Mosaics:
Palestine (Outer frame, North)
1. Jerusalem 2. Nablus 3. Sebastia
4. Caesarea 5. Lydda 6. Bayt Jibrin
7. Ascalon 8. Gaza
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Jordan (Outer frame, South)
1. Umm Ar-Rasas 2. Amman 3. Madaba
4. Heshbon 5. Belemounta
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Egypt, Nile Delta (Inner Frame)
1. Alexandria 2. Thenesos 3. Pelusium
4. Eraklion 5. Cynopolis 6. Pseudostomon
