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A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting Bishop Odo rallying Duke William's army during the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The Bayeux Tapestry [a] is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres (230 feet) long and 50 centimetres (20 inches) tall [1] that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, led by William, Duke of Normandy challenging Harold II, King of England ...
The 68.3-meter-long (224-foot-long) tapestry depicts William, Duke of Normandy, and his army killing Harold Godwinson, or Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, at the Battle of Hastings.
Giotto Madonna panel: 1297-1337: 1406-Bequeathed by Petrarch to Francesca da Carrara, lord of Padua, in 1370 Scolland/Lanfranc (attrib.), embroiderers Bayeux Tapestry, portions: 1070-1079: 1137-(?) Estate dispersal [a] Possibly in possession of Adela of Normandy: Duccio Virgin of the Assumption: 1308: 1771: Dismantled: Panel of the Maestà ...
The Bayeux Tapestry tituli are Medieval Latin captions that are embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry and describe scenes portrayed on the tapestry. These depict events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy , and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England , and culminating in the Battle of Hastings .
(Speaking of tapestries, when I turned 7 the following August, I used my birthday money to purchase a book at B. Dalton that featured a pullout facsimile of the historic Bayeux Tapestry! Yes, I ...
Intended to be a modern-day equivalent of the Bayeux Tapestry, the embroidery consists of 27 panels, each 9 ft × 3 ft (2.7 m × 0.9 m), and shows 81 great events in British history during the 900 years from 1066 to 1966. It took 22 embroiderers 10 months to finish.
There are 34 panels which together measure 83 metres (272 feet) in length. The Overlord Embroidery is one of the longest works of its kind in the world, at 10 metres (33 feet) longer than the Bayeux Tapestry, but shorter than the Prestonpans Tapestry. Twenty embroiderers worked for five years to create the embroidery.
Engravings from Stothard's drawings of the Bayeux Tapestry were made by James Basire, and published in 1823. [7] They show the complete tapestry, and were described by the art historian Eric Maclagan as "exquisite plates [which] still provide what is in many ways the most adequate representation of the original". [8]