London’s Victoria & Albert Museum is to exhibit ‘surviving examples of exquisite craftsmanship’ in English Medieval embroidery, encompassing gold, silver and pearl work fit for, and indeed used by, a ...
Bayou's tapestry is said to have been made in the second half of the 11th century, which has not been so long since Norman Conquest occurred. The bayeux tapestry that has been kept for a long time in ...
LONDON - It is probably the most famous piece of medieval embroidery in the world, a ribbon of scrolling tapestry 70 yards long that tells in pictures the story of the Norman Conquest of England in ...
Few English medieval works of art grip the imagination quite like the ferocious and racy Bayeux Tapestry, the embroidered epic of the Norman Conquest. So many storytelling and aesthetic words come ...
Crimson velvet and glittering gold make the heart beat faster, and the V&A’s new show of 100 works of priceless medieval embroidery does just that. Swirling ecclesiastic copes smothered in beautifully ...
Medieval Europe was a place of great emotional incontinence. So much so that historian Johan Huizinga claimed: “Modern man has no idea of the unrestrained extravagance of the medieval heart.” Crying ...
IMAGINE a world haunted by demons who can control your actions. Imagine a world where you could be accused of witchcraft for speaking out against the hypocrisy of religious leaders. Imagine it is ...
From the strange set-pieces of Bedwyr Williams to a festival of the city’s emerging art scene, via luxurious Medieval needlework<br> <br> Hannah McGivern, José da Silva and Pac Pobric ...
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Catalog, by Donald King, of an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Sept. 26 to Nov. 24, 1963. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...