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Interior

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ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

Louvre

LOUVRE

Medieval Architecture

MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE

Modern Architecture

MODERN ARCHITECTURE

Palladio,Andrea

PALLADIO,ANDREA

Prehistoric Architecture

PREHISTORIC ARCHITECTURE

Renaissance Architecture

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

Schinkel,Karl Friedrich

SCHINKEL,KARL FRIEDRICH

5,454 photos
L'Estrif de Vertu et Fortune - The Fight Between Virtue
and Fortune,poem by Martin Le Franc for Philippe       
Le Bon of Burgundy.Illustrations perhaps by Fouquet.   
French,parchment,28,5 x 20,5 cm,101 pages.Fortune and  
Virtue vaunt their merits before Reason.Fol.1 verso.
#15020735

L'Estrif de Vertu et Fortune - The Fight Between Virtue and Fortune,poem by Mart...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French,   
parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages. Probably written    
and painted in the Abbey of St.Bertin. The kingdom of   
the Merovingians is divided between the four sons of   
Clotaire I. Background: Huns destroy the city of Metz. (Antecedents of the Battle on the Catalaunian Plains: around 7 April 451 the Huns passed through Straßbourg and Metz, destroying both cities as they went.) Fol.36 versus.
#15020738

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 c...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French,   
parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages.Probably written    
and painted in the Abbey of St.Bertin.Charles Martell  
imprisoned in Cologne;he flees and wins three battles  
and conquers Alemannia,Suabia and Bavaria.Fol.102
#15020741

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French,   
parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages.                    
Good King Louis IX (the Saint)during the 7th crusade:  
his ships on the Nile;battle against the Sarazens;     
burial of masons killed by the Sarazens. Fol.338
#15020745

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French,   
parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages.Probably written    
and painted in the Abbey of St.Bertin.The coronation   
of Philippe VI in Reims,1328.The battle of Cassel in   
which the French subdued the Flemish uprising.Fol.398
#15020746

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm...

Les Onze Joies de Mariage - The eleven joys of marriage
1485,French,paper,27,9 x 20 cm, 126 pages.A satyre     
on married life.8th "joy":The husband suffers during   
a difficult delivery;his wife leaves on a pilgrimage   
with her lover;souvenir-booths upon arrival.
#15020751

Les Onze Joies de Mariage - The eleven joys of marriage 1485,French,paper,27,9 x...

Livre d'Heures dit de Louis d'Orleans,around 1490.     
Latin,parchment,21,5 x 14,8 cm, 112 pages.             
The creation of Eve,against a choir of angels.         
In the foreground the owner of the book,praying.       
Heavenly Jerusalem,the Garden Eden. fol.11 verso.
#15020753

Livre d'Heures dit de Louis d'Orleans,around 1490. Latin,parchment,21,5 x 1...

Plutarque,Dicours sur le Mariage de Pollion et Eurydice
end 15th,early 16th.French,parchment,24,5 x 16,5 cm,   
46 pages.Translation from the Latin by Jean Laudet,1499
for the wedding of Anne de Bretagne with Louis XII.    
Presentation of the book to Louis XII.fo.2 verso.
#15020755

Plutarque,Dicours sur le Mariage de Pollion et Eurydice end 15th,early 16th.Fren...

The Venerale Bede,Ecclesiastical History of the English
Nation, Northumbria, 746.                              
Initials of the First Book,"Britannia" folio 3 verso.
#15020765

The Venerale Bede,Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Northumbria, 746...

The New Testament according to Matthew,from            
Northumberland,end 13th.                               
Page with Initials,folio 18.
#15020766

The New Testament according to Matthew,from Northumberland,end 13th....

Bestiarium,England, end 12th. Latin,parchment,         
20 x 14,5 cm,91 pages.                                 
Adam distributes names to the animals.fol.5
#15020767

Bestiarium,England, end 12th. Latin,parchment, 20 x 14,5 cm,91 pages....

Bestiarium,England, end 12th. Latin,parchment,         
20 x 14,5 cm,91 pages.                                 
A whale,in mediaeval iconography often an allegory     
for the devil.The whale lifts the boat wihch founders. 
fol.71
#15020768

Bestiarium,England, end 12th. Latin,parchment, 20 x 14,5 cm,91 pages....