UNKNOWN ARTIST    (Italian 16th Century)

Oil on canvas

Inscribed: "Carolus M:Imp"

Collection: The Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Photograph: SEF/Art Resource, New York, NY

 

 

MELCHIOR BROEDERLAM  (Flemish c. 1355-1411

Oil on wood panel

Size: 3 feet 9 1/4 inches x 2 1/2 feet

Date: 1511-1520

Detail from: left panel of triptych in the Anchin Polyptuch

entitled: "The Coronation of the Virgin"

Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, Frnace

Photograph: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York, NY

 

 

JACOB JORDAENS  (Flemish 1593-1678

Oil on canvas

Size: 25 3/8 x 30 3/4 inches

Date: 1660-65

Detail from: the modello for the tapestry cycle "The History of Charlemagne"

The scene "The Homage of Caliph Harun al-Rashid to Charlemagne" is based

upon Charlemagne's nearly contemporary biography, the  Vita Karoli Magni Imperatori

by Einhard written circa  833

A 1660 study in gouache, water color and black chalk on paper for the

collection of The Louvre is on loan to the Musée des Beaux Arts, Arras, Frnace

Collection: Musée des Beaux Arts, Arras, France

Photograph: Phillips Gallery, London, England

 

 

CAROLINGIAN  (Early 9th Century)

Silver

Date: 806

Minted in Frankfurt

It is not a likeness of the Emperor, but copied from the

style of Roman coins.  Charlemagne introduced sound silver currency

which became the official instrument of exchange

Collection: Staatliche Museum,  Berlin, Germany

Photograph: The Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany

 

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