From the shaving of heads to the piercing of flesh, the acts of penance and devotion on display reveal the profound spiritual ...

Consisting of 58 scenes stitched into the linen cloth in different colors of wool, the medieval work of art — which is technically an embroidery rather than a woven tapestry — measures nearly ...

“The Bayeux Tapestry is integral to the way everyone ... to read about a place and see images of it in sources from the time, and to be able to pinpoint and reconstruct something of it now ...

Harold, one of the subjects of the Bayeux Tapestry, was famously killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066. His Bosham residence was depicted twice in the tapestry, but the remnants of the ...

This episode – The War of Troy tapestry. Show more Cathy FitzGerald invites you to discover new details in old masterpieces. Each episode of Moving Pictures is devoted to a single artwork ...