02-25-2009, 08:07 AM
Finally some hardware has started to surface - a bit later than what I am interested in. A sword dated to the fourteenth or first half of the fifteenth centuries and described as Steel, forging, engraving; gold, casting; inlaying (damascening)- L 1110 mm.
See:
[url:1nvx1xbk]http://www.mpu.org.yu/english/byzantium/pages/mac.html[/url]
It is on loan from the museum of Belgrade. It is part of an exhibition in the UK called Byzantium 330 – 1453 at the Royal Academy of Arts - Main Galleries between 25 October 2008 – 22 March 2009
Their blurb " Highlighting the splendours of the Byzantine Empire, the exhibition will comprise around 300 objects including icons, detached wall paintings, micro-mosaics, ivories, enamels plus gold and silver metalwork. Some of the works have never been displayed in public before. Byzantium 330–1453 will include great works from the San Marco Treasury in Venice and rare items from collections across Europe, the USA, Russia, Ukraine and Egypt. The exhibition begins with the foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great and concludes with the capture of the city by the Ottoman forces of Mehmed II in 1453. This will be the first major exhibition on Byzantine Art in the United Kingdom for 50 years."
There is supposed to be a sabre / paramerion exhibited as well. Can any of our UK friends provide more info?
See:
[url:1nvx1xbk]http://www.mpu.org.yu/english/byzantium/pages/mac.html[/url]
It is on loan from the museum of Belgrade. It is part of an exhibition in the UK called Byzantium 330 – 1453 at the Royal Academy of Arts - Main Galleries between 25 October 2008 – 22 March 2009
Their blurb " Highlighting the splendours of the Byzantine Empire, the exhibition will comprise around 300 objects including icons, detached wall paintings, micro-mosaics, ivories, enamels plus gold and silver metalwork. Some of the works have never been displayed in public before. Byzantium 330–1453 will include great works from the San Marco Treasury in Venice and rare items from collections across Europe, the USA, Russia, Ukraine and Egypt. The exhibition begins with the foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great and concludes with the capture of the city by the Ottoman forces of Mehmed II in 1453. This will be the first major exhibition on Byzantine Art in the United Kingdom for 50 years."
There is supposed to be a sabre / paramerion exhibited as well. Can any of our UK friends provide more info?
Peter Raftos
