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The tapestry is currently located in Bayeux, Normandy and is protected by a glass case. [3] The Bayeux Tapestry tituli are Medieval Latin captions that are embroidered along the Bayeux Tapestry scenes and describe the portrayed re-enactments on the tapestry. The tituli, comprising 2,226 characters and symbols, is the longest known text of its ...
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.
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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
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Odo of Bayeux (died 1097) was Bishop of Bayeux in Normandy and was also made Earl of Kent in England following the Norman Conquest. He was the maternal half-brother of duke, and later king, William the Conqueror , and was, for a time, William's primary administrator in the Kingdom of England, although he was eventually tried for defrauding ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 14:44, 19 January 2025: 1,221 × 913 (973 KB): Jacqke: Uploaded a work by unnamed embroiderers from 1066-1083 A.D. photography by University of Caen Normandy · CNRS · ENSICAEN based on the 2017 photographic campaign of the Heritage Factory in Normandy. from cropped from Wikimedia Commons image: File:Bayeux Tapestry Scene 26.png with ...