Emperor Vespasian Cured by Veronica's Veil, ca. 1510

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Emperor Vespasian Cured by Veronica's Veil, ca. 1510, Flemish, Brussels, Wool, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in slit, dovetailed, and double interlocking tapestry weave., 135 1/2' x 135' ( cm x cm), Textiles-Tapestries, This tapestry illustrates the legend of Veronica’s veil, an episode from a twelfth-century French epic poem, La Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur (The Vengeance of Our Lord), an amalgam of apocryphal sources from the first century which tell of the Roman Emperor Vespasian’s campaigns in Jerusalem

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Size: 4370px × 4390px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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