EditorialCeiling panel with a knight of the House of Anjou struck down by a knight with the coat of arms of Catalonia-Aragon and those of Swabia of Frederic of Sicily. Date/Period: Last quarter of 13th century. Painting. Tempera on wood. Height: 242 mm (9.52 in...
EditorialCharles II of Naples (1254-1309), also known as Charles the Lame. King of Naples, Count of Provence and Forcalquier (1285-1309), Prince of Achaea (1285-1289) and Count of Anjou and Maine (1285-1290). He was the son of Charles I of Anjou and Beatrice of...
EditorialLinear Gothic. Spain. 14th century. Priory chair of Blanche of Aragon and Anjou (c.1301-1348), nun and prioress. Back of the throne in polychrome wood depicting the enthroned Virgin of the Milk, framed by two angels holding candlesticks. 1322. It comes...
EditorialThe destruction of Babylon, Tapestry of the Apocalypse made for Louis I of Anjou from cartons (patterns) by Hennequin de Bruges. The tapesry was woven in Paris in the workshop of Nicolas Bataille, 1375-1380. 168 x 500 cm.
EditorialMiniature of Hercules wearing a lion's hide and carrying a mace. Address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato in Tuscany (the 'Regia Carmina'). Italy, Central (Tuscany); c. 1335-c. 1340. Source: Royal 6 E. IX, f.12. Langu...
EditorialPhilip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, returning to France in 1360. The Duke in armour on a horse with caparison, preceded by archers and fanfare trumpeters with his coat of arms. (Mistakenly labeled Louis I, Duke of Anjou with his army marching to retake ...
EditorialApocalypse d'Angers,1373-1387, a series of tapestries woven for Louis I.,Duke of Anjou. #24 The fifth trumpet: The angel of the abyss and a plague of locusts.
EditorialThe Swiss gentleman and poet Werner Graf von Homberg (1284-1320), at the service of Emperor Henry VII, besieges a city defended by the troops of the Anjou from Sicily. Codex Manesse (ca.1300) by Rudiger Manesse and his son Johannes. Fol. 44v. Universit...