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Battle between Riders and Chimera
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Tunic Front: Riders and Dancers
Tunic Front: Riders and Dancers
This finely woven textile fragment is either the front or back of a tunic. The two monochrome, tapestry-woven shoulder bands (clavi) contain lions, rabbits, riders, dancers/hunters...
painting (oil): "British Artillery Entering the Enemy's Lines at Tel-El-Kebir, 13th September 1882"
painting (oil): "British Artillery Entering the Enemy's Lines at Tel-El-Kebir, 13th September 1882"
In a ditch in the foreground on the right are two British and three Egyptian men. From the left is a dead Egyptian, his bayonet and a tin showing an Egyptian flag lie on the ground...
Oil painting
Oil painting
The painting was painted by the cavalry officer, the hippologist and artist Sam Arsenius (1857-1912) in 1897. Arsenius became a horseman at Norrlands Dragonregemente in 1894 and pa...
The Final Battle of Gaw and Talhand (painting, recto; text, verso), Illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
The Final Battle of Gaw and Talhand (painting, recto; text, verso), Illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
This illustrated folio belongs to a well known manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi dated to 1341, which is now dispersed. The manuscript was created for the vizier of the Inju g...
Ex-Voto Painting of the Battle Of Lepanto
Ex-Voto Painting of the Battle Of Lepanto
On 7 October 1571, 132,000 men on 490 ships faced each other on two sides of the Gulf of Patras, near Lepanto, in modern-day Greece. It was the last major battle in history fought ...
Hannah Antalek & Amelia Carley: Chimera
Hannah Antalek & Amelia Carley: Chimera
Chimera curated by Maria Martin, presents artworks by Hannah Antalek and Amelia Carley....
Bahram Chubina Slays Kut of Rum (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Bahram Chubina Slays Kut of Rum (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
The Iranian military commander Bahram Chubina had rebelled against his king, Hurmuzd; forced Hurmuzd’s son and rightful heir, Khusraw Parviz, to flee to Rum; and usurped the throne...