12th Century

This beautiful work tracing changes in French costume from the 12th to 18th century, stunning folio-sized hand-colored engraved plates depicting period fashions on famous French wome...

This beautiful work tracing changes in French costume from the 12th to 18th century, stunning folio-sized hand-colored engraved plates depicting period fashions on famous French wome...

Arranged on a rectangular mirror, the enamels are elegantly composed and colored to form a Nasrid-inspired decoration, representative of a Mudejar architecture, and manifesting the c...

Florentine Engraving is Old World jewelry and the art of the Florentine goldsmiths dates back to the 12th-13th century. The Florentine goldsmiths’ art is the legacy of the Renaissanc...

This beautiful work tracing changes in French costume from the 12th to 18th century, stunning folio-sized hand-colored engraved plates depicting period fashions on famous French wome...

The historic cathedral city of Peterborough is located in Cambridgeshire; The Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew (built 1118–1237) features mainly Norman and Romanes...

Bear baiting Bear baiting was a very popular sport from the 12th to the 19th century in England. Spectators sat on benches in a round arena, while a bear was tethered to a stake in ...

In 1905 seven examples were found by Fredrik Robert Martin (1868-1933) in the Ala’eddin Mosque in Konya, the foremost mosque at the heart of the Sultanate, which was constructed in s...

Two very old icons, from the 12th and 13th Centuries, painted on the same theme, are respectively in the Uspenskii Cathedral in Moscow and in the Russian Museum in St.

This beautiful work tracing changes in French costume from the 12th to 18th century, stunning folio-sized hand-colored engraved plates depicting period fashions on famous French wome...

Original vintage train travel poster - Visit Battle - featuring artwork by the notable commercial artist and poster designer Reginald Montague Lander (1913-1980) depicting people vis...

How were these magical colors obtained? Well, during the 12th and 13th centuries, metal oxides gave color to the glass.

In architecture, a chimera or grotesque is a fantastic or mythical figure used for decorative purposes, but in the 12th and 13th century (when most people were illiterate) they were ...

The atlas, later edited by Theodorus Menke, was widely used for educational purposes in the 19th century. The period covered by the map, the Dorian migration, is traditionally placed...