Painted and inked on silk, the portrait shows Chinngis in his old age. If a historian wants to show the Mongol ruler Chinngis Khan (also known as Genghis Khan) they will inevitably make use of this fourteenth-century painting found in an album of Yuan Dynasty emperors known as Yuandjai di banshenxiang. The image above is for September and shows peasants collecting the harvest with an imposing castle, Château de Saumur located in Anjou, in the background. This Book of Hours has over a hundred illuminations, with the most notable being a calendar of each of the twelve months. One of the most famous illuminated manuscripts we have today, Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry was created around the year 1415 for John, Duke of Berry, by three brothers: Herman, Paul, and Johan. Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry ©Photo. You can now see it at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Primavera, which means ‘Springs,’ has been described as “an elaborate mythological allegory of the burgeoning fertility of the world.” Several characters of mythology are shown in a garden, most notably the goddess Venus. Primavera by Sandro BotticelliĪlso one of the most iconic images of the Renaissance, this painting dates to the late 1470s or early 1480s. The Bayeux Tapestry is now kept at a special museum in the French town of Bayeux. One of the key scenes in the tapestry shows the Battle of Hastings and includes the death of King Harold II of England, although it is likely that he is not the figure being struck by an arrow to the eye (in fact the original version probably showed something different). Harold’s death, scene 57 – Harold rex interfectus est, “Harold the King is killed”, the Bayeux Tapestry. The embroidered cloth is over 70 metres long and was likely made in the 1070s. Perhaps the most widely-known artwork to be associated with the Middle Ages, the Bayeux Tapestry tells the story of the Norman duke William invading and conquering England in the year 1066. The Bayeux Tapestry The opening section of the Bayeux Tapestry

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