Medieval Historical Illustrations

Illustrations from medieval manuscripts, featuring battles, kings, and nobles in intricate detail, highlighting historical events and characters.

Count Wernher von Homberg (From the Codex Manesse) by Anonymous / Library of the Ruprecht Karl University, Heidelberg/ Between 1305 and 1340/ Schwitzerland/ Gouache on parchment/ Medieval art/ 35x25/ Music, Dance,History

St George and the Dragon - The Princess taken to the Dragon, 1861-62. Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Bayeux Tapestry, 11th cent. Norman cavalry attack wall of shields, FRANCE.

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ARTE VISIGODO. S. VII. PENTATEUCO DE ASHBURNAM O DE TOURS. Miniatura hispano-visigotica con la representación de la CONSTRUCCION DE UNA CIUDAD. Biblioteca Nacional de París. Francia.

Woodcut by Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298. Das Passional, oder Der Heiligen Leben durch das gantz Iar 1507

'Jacob Minger Stained Glass'. Switzerland, 1684. Dimensions: 32,4x22 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Anonymous master.

CHAMPION DES DAMES, Master of (s. XV). Des Hommes Illustres. s.XV. Torture of Brunhilda by Chlothar II, king of Neustria. ms. 0622, f. 221v. Work based on Boccaccio's 'De mulieribus claris' (On Famous Women). Gothic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. PROVENCE ALPES CTE D'AZUR. VAUCLUSE. Carpentras. Bibliothque Inguimbertine (Inguimbertine Library).

Procession of Florentine aristocracy

VINCENT of BEAUVAIS (1190-1264). Speculum historiale. ca. 1460. First Crusade. Siege of Antioch. Page 182 of the third volume of 'Le Miroir historial de Vincent de Beauvais', composed by Master Franois (15th c.). Gothic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. PICARDY. OISE. Chantilly. Mus_e Cond_ (Cond_ Museum).

A Disconsolate Lady and Confidante. Attributed to Mola Ram (India, 1743-1833 ()). India, Uttaranchal, Garhwal, 1775-1800. Drawings. Pencil and ink on paper

Spain/Catalonia: Cathay (inverted) and the Great Khan as represented in the Catalan Atlas, by the Jewish illustrator Cresques Abraham, 1375

The Lords of Montfoort. Memorial Tablet for the Lords of Montfoort. Dating: c. 1400. Place: Northern Netherlands. Measurements: support: h 69.5 cm × w 142.9 cm; frame: h 86 cm × w 157.5 cm × t 6 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Poster. Lord (or "milord") North and the governor's wife (from Grenada). French propaganda print after the French victory in Grenada in 1779 during the American Revolutionary War. Left: Prime Minister, Lord North, lowering his head to the wife of the governor Grenada, who shows him a picture of the capture of Grenada by the French. Seated in the center: the King of England: "The loss of Grenada makes me sick." Seated at left, Albion (Britannia): "Our business of America gives me the colic." Below: Lord North, "If you had defended against the climbing (of the walls with ladders), he would not h

End of 5th century AD. Deatail from a freize showing the Battle of Kadesh (Qadesh) between the Egyptian Empire under Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire under Muwatalli II at the city of Kadesh on the Orontes River, near the modern Syrian-Lebanese border dated to 1274 BC. It was the largest chariot battle ever fought, involving perhaps 5,000ñ6,000 chariots

TRASLADO DEL CUERPO DE SANTIAGO EL MAYOR ANTE EL EPALACIO DE LA REINA LUPA - SIGLO XV - MIXTA/TABLA - 159x73 cm - NP 2669 - ESCUELA HISPANO-FLAMENCA. Author: MARTIN BERNAT (1454-1505). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. SAN ATANASIO. REINA LUPA. SAN TEODORO. APOSTOL SANTIAGO PEREGRINO. Apóstol Santiago el Mayor.

King of Poland and an Islamic (Possibly Turkish ) ruler depicted in Jacopo Russo Map of the world 16th century circa 1528 from the 'Carte Geografiche' (vellum)

Frankish Art - 11th century - Miniature from ""Capitularia Regum Francorum"" - King Lotharius

German 15th Century, Saint Alto, c. 1500, woodcut, hand colored in burgundy, blue-green, orange, brown, red, and yellow-green

Altarpiece of the martyrdom of Saint Eulalia, Joan Lloert, Palma Cathedral Museum, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

France/England: Sir John Mandeville and the King of England, frontispiece from Le Livre des Merveilles, Paris, c. 1420

A Tournament Contest; Augsburg (probably), Germany; about 1560 - 1570; Tempera colors and gold and silver paint on paper bound between original pasteboard covered with original brown calf; Leaf: 43 x 28.9 cm (16 15,16 x 11 3,8 in.)

King King, Pinturas murales , Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de la Asunción , Alaitza, Álava, Spain, Europe Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 21313873

Cresques Abraham / Atlas Catalán, 1375. Museu Marítim de Barcelona.

FRANCE. Paris. The king Arthur and his knight boarding towards Holy Land. Book by Antoine Verard, c. 1490. Gothic art. Miniature Painting.

CAPODILISTA, Giovanni Francesco (15th c. - 15th c.). Capodilista Codex. 1434. Federico Carlotis, Knight of the lineage Capodilista, dressed in a falconer's costume. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Miniature Painting. ITALY. VENETO. Padua. Bibliothque Municipale (Municipal Library).

The Lords of Montfoort, The Netherlands, Anonymous, c. 1400

Bayeux cathedral mural decors, normandy, France BAYEUX, FRANCE, MAY 14, 2024 : mural decors of Bayeux, cathedral, normandy Copyright: xZoonar.com/Bayeuxxcathedralxmuralxdecors,xnormandy,xFrancex 22188703

Kartiny iz Biblii i Apokalipsisa, raboty mastera Korenia.. Rovinski, D. A. (Dmitri Aleksandrovich), 1824-1895. Prints. 1881. Rare Book Division. Folk art , Russia (Federation), Russia , Social life and customs, Engraving, Russian

Sickness Spears the Stag and Death Sounds His Horn (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag) ca. 1495-1510 South Netherlandish. Sickness Spears the Stag and Death Sounds His Horn (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag) 468698

Italy, Veneto, Verona, wall paintings, San Zeno church.

Henry VII of Luxembourg Defeats the Revolt of the Milanese, 1311 ca. 1350 Artist Unknown Illuminated manuscript Staatsarchiv, Koblenz, Germany

Colored woodcut by Anton Koberger, created between 1479 and 1483, showing the biblical story of Moses being found, with detailed figures and natural landscape elements.

Mestre d'Estamariu / Altarpiece of Sant Vicenç d'Estamariu, 14th century. Museum: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona.

St. George and the Dragon, Russian, Novgorod School,, 2nd half 15th century, Egg Tempera on wood, St Petersburg, Russian State Museum

Lancelot

Town by Limbourg brothers, watercolor on parchment, 1412-1416, active 1385-1416, Chantilly, Musee Conde, 29x21

Saint Martin and the Brigands ca. 1430 South Netherlandish. Saint Martin and the Brigands 468240

Colored woodcut by Johann Zainer from 1473 depicting Ypermestra and Priest Linus, showing figures in gesture and expression with historical attire.

Retribution Vozmezdie. 1915 - 1925. Posters. Manuscripts and Archives Division. Soviet Union , History , 1917-1936, Political posters, Russian

Cave Hermitage of San Bernabé, Ojo Guareña , Espinosa de los Monteros, Castilla y Leon, Spain.

Bifolio with Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1230-1240. Germany, Lower Saxony (Diocese of Hildesheim), Braunschweig(), 13th century. Tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 31 x 22.5 cm (12 3/16 x 8 7/8 in.); framed: 48.3 x 63.5 cm (19 x 25 in.); overall: 30.7 x 45.2 cm (12 1/16 x 17 13/16 in.); matted: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.).

Cresques Abraham / Atlas Catalán, 1375. Museu Marítim de Barcelona.

CODEX TRUJILLO DEL PERU - BOOK II E 88 - INDIANS BEATING THE WOOL - WATERCOLOR - 18TH CENTURY. Author: MARTINEZ COMPAÑON BALTASAR. Location: PALACIO REAL-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.

DET- BATALLA DE SAN QUINTIN (1557)- PINTURA AL FRESCO 1585- SALA DE BATALLAS- DESPUES DE RESTAURAR. Author: GRANELLO-TAVARON-CASTELLO Y CAMBIASSO. Location: MONASTERIO-PINTURA. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Knight in Yellow on Blue Horse: Capodilista Codex Manuscript Illumination Biblioteca Civica, Padua

Destrucction of Sodom. Lot and their daughters escape and his wife is turned into a pillar of salt. Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493.

SKYLITZER , JUAN. HISTORIADOR BIZANTINO DEL SIGLO XI. AUTOR DE" LA CRONICA DE LOS ACONTECIMIENTOS ACAECIDOS DESDE EL AÑO 811 AL 1037 ". " LA PESTE BOVINA QUE ASOLO EL IMPERIO DURANTE EL REINADO DE ROMANO I ". MANUSCRITO SIGLO XII. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL . MADRID.

Miniature depicting Samson with accompanying rubric., 1445. Themes include campaigns and battles, featuring Samson, a Biblical judge

ATLAS CATALAN - DETALLE DE CARAVANA - AÑO 1375. Author: ABRAHAM CRESQUES (1325-1387). Location: NATIONAL LIBRARY. France.

Story of Four Sons(?), ca.1415-20, Tempera on panel, 31.4 × 119.1 cm (12 3/8 × 46 7/8in.), Made in Florence, Italy, Italian,Florence, 15thcentury, Paintings

Travel from Falmouth to Truro. Draughtsman: Jan Brandes. Dating: Jun-1778. Place: Penryn. Measurements: h 195 mm × w 155 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Quadriga of the factio russata. The auriga of the winning team (red) raises the palm as a symbol of triumph. Roman mosaic. 3rd century AD. Limestone. From Rome, Italy. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid.

Text with placemarkers and rubric. Miniature of Absalom caught in a tree by his hair.. 1445. Schlapperitzin, Konrad ca. um 1445. Religious books, Manuscripts. Manuscripts and Archives Division

Henry VI Hohenstaufen (Nijmegen, 1165, Messina, 1197.) King of Italy and Germany and emperor (1191-1197), son of Frederick I Barbarossa. The emperor with the arms of the Habsburg Empire. Fol. 6r. Codex Manesse (ca.1300) by Rudiger Manesse and his son Johannes. University of Heidelberg. Library. Germany.

RABANUS, Maurus (c. 780 - 856). De universo or De rerum naturis. 842 - 847. Illustration Of Putei, woman by the well. Edition of the 11th century from the original Carolingian manuscript. Romanesque art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. LAZIO. FROSINONE. Cassino. Archive of Monte Cassino's Abbey.

Basel (Switzerland). Engraving. Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel,1493. Later colouration.

Title page from Primaleon et Polendos su Hermano, Hijos del Emperador Palmerin de Oliva. Venice, Juan Antonio de Nicolini de Sabio. Dated 1534

PANTEON REAL - PINTURAS ROMANICAS - AÑOS 1160/1170. Location: COLEGIATA DE SAN ISIDORO, LEON, SPAIN.

Egypt. Egyptian hanidcrafts, hand painted papyrus.

Book illustration by Byzantine Master, Gouache on parchment, circa 850, Russia, Moscow, State History Museum, 19, 5x15

Enamelled earthenware tile from Cataluña. 18th century. Farmer. Barcelona, Museum of Modern Art. Location: MUSEU NACIONAL D'ART CATALUNYA. Barcelona. SPAIN.

Bilibin, Ivan Yakovlevich (1876-1942) Institut of Russian Literature IRLI (Pushkin-House), St Petersburg 1906 21,2x27,5 Watercolour and ink on cardboard

Illustration of a treaty of Venice's city and domain government and regime, by the Admiral Louis Malet de Graville. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. PICARDY. OISE. Chantilly. MusŽe CondŽ (CondŽ Museum).

Tapestry at the moated castle Chateau Fort de Pirou, Manche department, Basse-Normandie region, Normandy, France, Europe

Bayeux cathedral mural decors, normandy, France BAYEUX, FRANCE, MAY 14, 2024 : mural decors of Bayeux, cathedral, normandy Copyright: xZoonar.com/Bayeuxxcathedralxmuralxdecors,xnormandy,xFrancex 22188727

France: Jeanne d'Arc / Joan of Arc (c. 1412 - 30 May 1431). Painting on parchment, c. 1485. Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed 'The Maid of Orleans', is considered a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was 19 years old.

This 1473 colored woodcut by Johann Zainer portrays the Queen of the Cretensium in Europe with symbolic references to Jupiter, demonstrating early German print techniques.

Danish defeat. Illustration from 'Grandes Chroniques de France' (15th century). Gothic art. Miniature Painting. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS. Brussels. Bibliothque Royale (Royal Library).

A quack-doctor examining a urine flask. Oil painting.

Ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, by Augustine Aglio, color print from Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, by Edward King Kingsborough, volume III, 1831-1848, London.

Illumination from the 14th Century Codex Manesse; Herr Nünü

Illustration from Old Russian Legend by anonymous artist, Watercolor on parchment, 17th century, British Library

Coloured illustration of playing cards depicting portraits of Paris published by J. Chalumet (1719-1745).

Serie berühmte italienische Rathäuser, Italien, Bologna, Palazzo comunale, König Enzio wird nach der Schlacht bei Fossalta 1249 als Gefangener nach Bologna geführt / Series famous Italian town halls, Italy, Bologna, Palazzo comunale, King Enzio is led as a prisoner to Bologna after the battle of Fossalta in 1249, Liebigbild, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital restaurierte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei.

Spain, Seville. The Spanish Square (aka Plaza de Espana). Built in 1929 for Ibero-American Exhibition, traditional hand-painted tile detail.

Bilderserie über den Ochsen, der Ochse als Opfertier im Altertum / Series of pictures about the ox, the ox as a sacrificial animal in ancient times, Liebigbild, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital restaurierte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei.

European Arms of the Sixteenth Century, Medieval Costume

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