La Première Croisade – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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La Première Croisade comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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La Première Croisade
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Unlike the other plates in this series, this one is dedicated to the First Crusade, the campaign that Pope Urban II called at Clermont in 1095. It reproduces a page from a French manuscript held at the Bibliothèque nationale, and the 1955 color printing recreates the original painted scene. The crusaders reached Jerusalem and captured the city in July 1099, and the expedition shaped relations between Western Europe and the Near East for generations. Medieval chronicles of these events were often illustrated in this way, so the plate offers a look at how later readers imagined the crusade.
| Created / published | 1955 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : color. |
| Genre | Fo. 9"." |
| Subjects | Serie no. 150--Les croisades". Plate 2. "B.N. Manuscrit Français 22 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,148 × 1,455 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216271 |
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