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  • Collection: Commemoration, Remembrance, and Metaphor in Twenty Images

This stamp from 1993 depicts Saladin and marks the 800th anniversary of his death.

This painting by Delacrois was commissioned by Louis-Philippe, the last king of France. It shows a scene from the Fourth Crusade, wherein the Crusaders decide to sack the city of Constantinople instead of continuing on to invade the Muslin East and…

A knight of the German Order returning from thr crusade, after Karl Immermann’s poem “The arrival of the crusader”,1826

This terracotta sculpture depicts an apocryphal scene from the life of King Edward, in which his life was saved by his young wife, Eleanor, who sucked poison from his arm after Edward was stabbed by a would-be-assassin with a poisoned dagger during…

In the style of the first half of the 15th century

This oxidized silver necklace shows a scene of a crusader taking leave of his lady, along with two page boys.
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