Cloth of Saint Gereon
tapestry
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style of tapestry
- In tapestry: Early Middle Ages in western Europe
The Cloth of Saint Gereon is thematically ornamental, but an early series of three tapestries woven in the Rhineland for the Halberstadt Cathedral were narrative. Dating from the late 12th and early 13th centuries, these wool and linen hangings are highly stylized and schematic in their…
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