The amphora was made in Port Saint Symeon, in the Frankish principality of Antioch, shortly before the sack of the city by the Mamluks in 1268. It features incised decoration, highlighted with malachite green and manganese brown. On the body of this…
The film, released in 1938, retells the story of the fight between the Teutonic Order and the people of Novgorod led by 20-year old Prince Alexander Nevsky in 1242. The event was directed by Sergei Eisenstein. The music score was written by Sergei…
Astrolabe of ‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari, later Sultan of Yemen (r.1295-96).
Brass; cast and hammered, pierced, chased, inlaid with silver. Made in Yemen
A.H. 690/ A.D. 1291
The Metropolitan Museum, NYC, Edward C. Moore…
The Travels of Marco Polo. The Polo Brothers bid farewell to Constantinople en route to Trebizond and the Silk Route.
Le Livre des Merveilles,15th cent. Bibliotheque Nationale MS Fr. 2810.
The most important patron of the arts in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was the half-Armenian Queen Melisende. Melisende (1105–c. 1160) and her husband, Fulk V of Anjou, became joint rulers of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1131. However within…
A scale model of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The model consists of 16 separate pieces that can be disassembled.
Olive wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl and bone.
Still standing in Jerusalem, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher…