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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 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.
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 ...
Bayeux Tapestry created by the Leek Embroidery Society on display at Reading Museum, 2019. By 1885, thirty-seven ladies of the Leek School of Art Embroidery Society began work on a replica of the Bayeux Tapestry. [10] Elizabeth had seen the real Bayeux Tapestry while at an exhibition and believed that Britain should have its own version.
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]
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.
Guy capturing Harold, scene 7 of the Bayeux Tapestry Harold swearing the oath, scene 23 of the Bayeux Tapestry In 1064, Harold Godwinson, the Earl of Wessex, was shipwrecked on the shores of Ponthieu and captured by Count Guy who took him to his castle of Beaurain on the river Canche, as the Bayeux Tapestry relates: hic apprehendit wido Haroldum et duxit em ad Belrem et ibi eum tenuit ("Here ...
Bayeux Cathedral, also known as Cathedral of Our Lady of Bayeux (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Bayeux), is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Bayeux in Normandy, France. A national monument , it is the seat of the Bishop of Bayeux and Lisieux and was probably the original home of the Bayeux Tapestry , still preserved nearby.