it is an account of the medieval period in Normandy and England like no other,
image via
Wikimedia Commons, it provides information about civil and military
architecture such as castle mounds, armour consisting of a nasal helmet,
hauberk and oblong shield and seafaring in the Viking tradition, through the
great number of items depicted, it also gives precious details of everyday life
in the 11th century, The Bayeux Tapestry is believed to be commissioned as
an apology gift for the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The tapestry
captures how people and events looked in medieval Europe in stylized detail.
For the first time, enthusiasts and curious minds alike can view and zoom
through a digital version of the artwork at the Bayeux Museum’s website, as Open Culture details:
The museum
“worked with teams from the University of Caen Normandie to digitize
high-resolution images of the tapestry, which were taken in 2017,” says Medievalists.net, “A simple interface was created
to access the digital version, which allows users to zoom in
and explore it in great detail with access to Latin translations in French and
English.” Made of 2.6 billion pixels (which brings it to eight gigabytes in
size), the online Bayeux Tapestry lets us zoom in so far as
to examine its individual threads — the same level at which it was inspected in
real life earlier last year in anticipation of its next restoration, if only we had this in the late 1950s, when as a school kid we we tasked with making a replica of it!
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