The Crusades and Constantinople in Twenty Objects
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The Crusades and Constantinople in Twenty Objects
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Collection Items
Madonna and Child on a Curved Throne
This painting is considered to be in the "Maniera Greca."
Stained Glass window showing Louis IX Carrying the Crown of Thorns
This panel shows Louis along with his brother and courtiers at Sens, wearing simple clothes, processing the relic of the Crown of Thorns atop a chalice.
Relic of the Crown of Thorns
Given by Latin Emperor Baldwin II to King Louis IX of France, among others including the Image of Edessa, arrived in Paris in August 1239 for the sum of 135,000 livres. The Saint-Chapelle was built to house these (pawned) relics from Constantinople,…
Enamel Icon of the Archangel Michael
Looted by Crusaders in Constantinople and currently in the treasury of San Marco. The Surrounding plaques feature images of paired military saints, at the top, Christ is flanked by Saints Peter and Menas.
De la Conquête de Constantinople (On the Conquest of Constantinople) fol. 1r
Written by Geoffrey of Villehardouin, knight and crusader and therefore eyewitness. The work is written as an epic in the third person. Here, the initial "S" contained a depiction of Foulques of Neuilly preaching about the Fourth Crusade. The detail…
Historia of Niketas Choniates fol. 362v (Historia: fol. 362v-385*)
The Historia covers the period from 1118 to 1207, and is noteworthy for its description of the occupation of Constantinople, an excerpt in English can be read here: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/choniates1.asp
The full manuscript, which…
The full manuscript, which…
Bronze Horses of San Marco (the Triumphal Quadriga)
This set of four bronze horses that originally included a quadriga (chariot for racing), after the sack of Constantinople in 1204, the horses were placed on the exterior of St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, where they remained until Napoleon took them in…
Entrée des Croisés à Constantinople (Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople)
Commissioned by the last French King, Louis Philippe I, this painting by Delacroix shows Baldwin I of Constantinople leading the procession of crusaders through the streets of Constantinople. The painting was not particularly well received after its…
Manuscript illustration of the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders, fol. 205r
From “Croniques abregies commençans au temps de Herode Antipas, persecuteur de la chrestienté, et finissant l'an de grace mil IIc et LXXVI”
Full manuscript: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b550069168/f1.item
Full manuscript: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b550069168/f1.item
Grosso of Enrico Dandolo (obverse)
The doge standing at left receiving a banner from St. Mark; inscription: ✠ • H • DANDOL' • S • M • VENETI
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