Facsimiles of the Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts. Polychromatic ornament by Auguste Racinet.
Category: 9th Century
The Ducal Palace at Venice. The Palace of the Doges.
The Doge’s Palace in Venice was the seat of the Doge and the governing and judicial organs of the Republic of Venice from the 9th century onwards.
Costumes of the Byzantine Middle Class. 400 A.D. – 1100 A.D.
Byzantine costume was the dress of the world after the fall of Rome.
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Byzantine silk fabric with elephants from the 8th to 10th century.
Silk fabric. Background red pattern opposite. Large circles with elephants. The pattern is a Byzantine redesign of an originally Sassanid pattern.
Byzantium. Costumes of the Eastern Roman emperor and empress.
History of Costume. Byzantium. 400 – 1100 AD. Costumes of the Eastern Roman emperor and empress.
Armament. War costumes from the 9th to 13th century in France.
Armament of the Middle Ages in France. Ring armour. Chain mail. War costumes from the 9th to 13th century.
The Byzantine Ornament of Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
The Byzantine style of art. The Romanesque style. Marble mosaic work. Examples of flowing foliage. Ornamental forms of ancient Persepolis. Ornamentation of the Middle Ages.
Byzantine Art. Mural, paintings, mosaics, and paintings from manuscripts.
Marginal paintings. Paintings in St. Sophia. Mosaics from Palermo. Enameled border. Paintings at Constantinople.
Crowns and scepters of the Merovingian and Carolingian Frankish kings.
Carolingian Frankish crowns of Pippin and Charlemagne. Merovingian Crowns of Clovis, of his four sons Theuderich, Chlodomer, Childebert and Chlothar.
Byzantine. The Emperor. Greek, Latin clergy. Ascetics and monks.
Byzantine. Greek, Latin clergy. Ascetics and monks. The blessing of the Greeks and the Latins. The Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire and the officers of his retinue. The Roman Consul. The patrician. Secular and ecclesiastical instruments.