1. Silver plate depicting Theodosius the Great ( Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum) | |
2. Vandal noble leaving his villa, mosaic c. 500 ( British Museum) | |
3. Mosaic from the Church of St Sophia, Constantinople (Courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks, Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington, D.C.) | |
4. Tomb of St Agilbert, Jouarre (Lauros-Giraudon, Paris) | |
5. Interior of the Palace Chapel, Aachen, 790s ( Ann Münchow) | |
6. Reconstruction of the Abbey of Cluny ( Medieval Academy of America from K. J. Conant 'Cluny' and by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library) | |
7. Bronze column (c. 1015-22) depicting scenes from the life of Christ ( Conway Library, Courtauld Institute of Art) | |
8. Thirteenth-centurysgraffito ceramic dish ( British Museum) | |
9. Crusader castle (Direction Générale du Service des Antiquités, Damascus) | |
10. Venetian merchants (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris) | |
11. by Sandro Botticelli now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence (Scala, Florence) | |
12. The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain from Duccio's Maestà ( 1308-11), altar-piece for the Cathedral of Siena (© the Frick Collection, New York) | |
13. Miniature showing the burial of plague victims (Bibliothèque Royale, Bruxelles) | |
14. Altar-piece ( 1436) by Jan van Eyck (Stedelijke Musea, Brugge) |
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