File:EB1911 Tapestry - North French or German - wall-hanging.jpg
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English: Portion of wall-hanging from the church of St Gereon, Cologne. North French or German manufacture of the 11th or 12th century. About 2 ft. by 2 ft. 6 in. This fragment is considered by authorities to be of 12th-century north European work, possibly from some Rhenish place. At one time the whole piece belonged to the church of St. Gereon at Cologne; a large bit of it is now in the museum at Lyons; another at Nuremberg; whilst a small part of the border only is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. The pattern consists of repeated roundels within each of which is a chimerical bird and bull (? St. Luke), elsewhere is a small eagle (? St. John). The style of design, strong in oriental and Byzantine character, is frequently found in shuttle woven silks of the period. |
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| Date | published 1911 | |||
| Source | “Tapestry,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 26, 1911, fig. 11 (plate II). | |||
| Author | Unknown artist | |||
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