Painting an icon – Middle Ages project
Byzantine icon of St. Catherine(1300s AD) In the Middle Ages, many people believed that a painting or statue of the Christian God, or Jesus, or Mary, or one of the saints, [...]
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06, 2017
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06, 2017
Design a medieval castle – Medieval Europe projects
Castle of Vincennes, Paris (1300s AD) In the Middle Ages, many people lived inside castles like this one. You can study pictures of different kinds of medieval castles, and the [...]
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06, 2017
Medieval and modern knitting history
Modern knitting history: Stocking frame knitting machine (1750) Knitting silk stockings In the 1500s AD, knitters in Spain and France started to produce very fine knitted silk stockings, with little tiny [...]
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06, 2017
Old World Cotton History – India, Africa, Asia, Europe
India cotton bolls hanging from the plants India cotton farming About 2500 BC, a thousand years after people started to grow cotton in Peru, the Harappan people in India also [...]
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05, 2017
What is lost wax casting? History of Art
A Samnite man cutting the bronze pins off a newly poured lost wax statue. This is the only ancient image of lost wax casting; it's from Pompeii, about 400 BC. [...]
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05, 2017
What is a groin vault? History of Architecture
Six-part groin vault (Abbaye aux Dames, Caen, 1050 AD) Stone roofs and fireproofing In Romanesque churches, in the 1000s AD, architects or often just had a wood roof. But wood [...]
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05, 2017
History of Christianity
History of Christianity: One of the earliest images of Jesus, from St. Callisto catacomb in Rome (ca. 250 AD) Empires and Christianity Around the time of the beginning of the [...]
