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...diving out of the way just before the tree, causing the unicorn to strike the tree, rendering it dead , unconscious , or stuck, held by its horn in the wood . The famous late Gothic series of seven tapestry hangings, the Hunt of the Unicorn at The Cloisters , New York City is a high point in European tapestry manufacture, combining both secular and religious themes. In the series, richly dressed...
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...prove her skill. Athena dropped her disguise and the contest began. Athena wove the scene of her victory over Poseidon that inspired the people of Athens to name their city for her. Arachne's tapestry featured Zeus : Zeus being unfaithful with Leda , Zeus being unfaithful with Europa , Zeus being unfaithful with Danae . Even Athena admitted that Arachne's work was flawless, but was outraged...
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... and now contains galleries describing the history of Reading and its related industries, a gallery of artifacts discovered during the excavations of Silchester Roman Town , a copy of the Bayeux Tapestry and an art collection. The University of Reading was established in 1892 , affiliated to Oxford University . It was chartered as an independent university in 1926 and moved onto its new...
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...creative years. Along with his painting, Boucher also designed theatre costumes and sets, and the ardent intrigues of the comic operas Favart (1710-92) closely parallel his own style of painting. Tapestry design was also an interest and major activity of his, together with his design activities for the opera and the royal palaces of Versailles, Fontainebleu and Choisy. His design activities for...
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...leaving the last sections almost entirely to his pupils. In the meantime he worked to other tasks, such as secular and sacred decorations for various buildings, portraits, altarpieces, cartoons for tapestries, designs for dishes and stage sceneries. Some of the most renowned works of this period stemmed from his friendship with the rich Senese banker Agostino Chigi, who commissioned him the beautiful...
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Battle of Hastings A section of the Bayeux Tapestry , chronicling the English/Norman battle in 1066 which led to the Norman Conquest. Conflict : Norman Conquest Date : October 14 1066 Place : Hastings , England Outcome : Decisive Norman victory Combatants Normans Anglo-Saxon English Commanders William of Normandy Harold Godwinson...
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... duc de Sully , Henry reduced the land tax known as the taille ; promoted agriculture, public works, construction of highways, and the first French canal; started such important industries as the tapestry works of the Gobelins ; and intervened in favor of Protestants in the duchies and earldoms along the German frontier. This last was to be the cause of his assassination. Henry's marriage to...
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...bombing during the war, leaving only the outer walls and spire. The new Coventry Cathedral was opened in 1962 next to the ruins of the old. It was designed by Basil Spence and contains the tapestry, "Christ in Majesty" by Graham Sutherland and the bronze statue of St Michael and the Devil by Jacob Epstein . Benjamin Britten 's War Requiem , regarded by some as his masterpiece, was written...
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...60° of the heavens and took the form of a sabre. In 1066 , the comet was thought to be an omen: later that year Harold II of England died at the Battle of Hastings . It is shown on the Bayeux Tapestry , and the accounts which have been preserved represent it as having then appeared to be four times the size of Venus , and to have shone with a light equal to a fourth of that of the Moon ....
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...similar, but, as the name suggests, it is smaller and equipped with levers rather than treadles, since it is made to sit on a stand or on top of a table. A haute lisse loom at the Gobelins tapestry manufactory in Paris , France Haute lisse looms Looms used for weaving traditional tapestry are classified as haute lisse looms, where the woof is suspended vertically between...
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