Nave of Wells Cathedral completely furnished with pointed arches. It is the main work of early English Gothic architecture.
Category: Middle Ages
Middle Ages costumes and fashion. Period between 700 to 15th century. Style of Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance.
Tintern Abbey. An excellent specimen of pure Gothic architecture.
Wales. The romantic Tintern Abbey situated amid scenery of the most charming and attractive nature.
The Town-Hall of Cologne on the Rhine, Germany 19th c..
Germany Romanticism. Cologne and the legend of the fight with the lion of the mayor Hermann Gryn.
Byzantine Art. Mural, paintings, mosaics, and paintings from manuscripts.
Marginal paintings. Paintings in St. Sophia. Mosaics from Palermo. Enameled border. Paintings at Constantinople.
Byzantine Basileus in Grand Imperial Costume. Nicéphore Phocas.
Emperor Nicéphore Phocas (963-969). Basileus Byzantin en Grand Costume Imperial.
Italian princes, herald and squires in the fashion of the 15th century.
Italian princes in the fashion of the 15th century. Italian noblemen, heralds and squires in the fashion of Mi-Parti. Garments with coloured lobes, saddles and bells. Crakow shoes also known as poulaines or pikes.
Crossbow of the 15th century. Ranged weapon with fishbone bow.
This strong Crossbow consists of fishbones. Usually such crossbows have the steel bow, but for the winter time such fishbone bows were chosen.
Portrait of Margaret of York. The lady with the hennin.
French school, second half of the 15th century.
Portrait of Margaret of York (1446 – 1503), wife of Charles the Bold. The lady with the hennin.
Royal Crowns & Sceptre of the Frankish kings.
Crowns and scepters of the Merovingian and Carolingian Frankish kings in the Middle Ages.
Byzantine Orthodox. Abyssinian. Patriarchal type. The imperial family.
Byzantium and Abyssinia. Patriarchal type. The Maronites and the Byzantine Orthodox churches. The Abyssinian Cross. Emperor of the Eastern Empire and Princes of the Imperial Family. The Tiara and the Crown.