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Earthenware floor-tiles, lead-glazed with inlaid slip decoration. Four quarter tiles making up a circular picture; six surviving fragments; representation of Saladin (Salah al-Din) on horseback, in combat with his adversary Richard I (Coeur de Lion).…

Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg),
Knight, Death, and the Devil. Print, 1513.

Harvard Art Museums, G1112

Hermann Freihold Plüddemann, German (1809 - 1868), Crusaders in sight of Jerusalem. Print,
Harvard Art Museums, European and American Art, R14699

What has been the legacy of the Crusades in art, literature, and popular culture?

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.

Gold Hyperpyron of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos of Byzantium (r. 1081-1118), mint of Constantinople

Ducat (Zecchino) of Doge Alvise Mocenigo, mint of Venice, 18th century.

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…

Remains of an expansive sugar factory, part of the Crusader castle of Colossi, Cyprus, 13th century.
What's the connection between "sweet salt" (=sugar), the Crusaders, and Cyprus?

Silver sugar shaker designed by Robert Douglas, American (1740 - 1776), c. 1770