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Museum Description: “The encounter between Leo the Great and Attila is the last fresco painted in this room. It was completed after the death of Julius II (pontiff from 1503 to 1513), during the pontificate of his successor Leo X (pontiff from 1513…

A second manuscript signed by Toros Roslin, with a total of 15 miniatures and 67 smaller illustrations. In the colophon, the manuscript is noted as being made for the nephew of Catholicos Constantine (1221-67), also named Toros, in 1262 at the…

The cathedral in Amiens, France was built between 1220 and 1270 in the High Gothic style. It was originally built in order to house the relic of the head of John the Baptist, which arrived on December 17, 1206 after having been looted during the sack…

This large, impressive canteen, the only known example of its kind from the Islamic world, was created in Mosul (now in Iraq) in the mid-13th century during the Ayyubid period. The canteen recalls the shape of ceramic pilgrim flasks. Its inlaid…

Mystras was a major late medieval fortified city in the Peloponnese, Greece, founded in the 13th century. The site became the seat of the Latin Principality of Achaea following the fall of Constantinople to the Crusaders in 1204. In 1259, the city's…

Mystras was a major late medieval fortified city in the Peloponnese, Greece founded in the 13th century. It became the seat of the Latin Principality of Achaea following the fall of Constantinople to the crusaders in 1204. In 1259, the city's Latin…

An illustration for Bernard de Montfaucon's 'Les monumens de la monarchie françoise.'