Samite fragments with double-headed eagles, from the tomb of Saint Bernard Calvo
https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.92
This silk is woven with horizontal rows of incompleted ovals, each containing a double-headed eagle grasping lions with its talons. It belongs to a group of Spanish silks that emulated the great silks being produced at that time in Byzantium. During the 11th and 12th centuries...
Artifact
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id
129192
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contentType
object
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| citation |
citation
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| rights |
rights
CC0
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rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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| wikidata |
wikidata
[
"Q60750099"
]
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| source |
source
import
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| accession |
accession
1951.92
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Source image fields (4)
| thumbnailUrl | https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.92/1951.92_web.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.92/1951.92_web.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.92/1951.92_web.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
Terms
Culture
probably Byzantium
Technique
samite: silk
Medium
samite: silk
Genre
Textile
Department
Textiles
Relations
belongs_to