Fabric depicting a quadriga, Cl. 13289 © GrandPalaisRmn / Michel Urtado

Fabric depicting a quadriga

Description

Not on display

8th century

Early Middle Ages

The Musée de Cluny houses a wide range of textiles, whose diversity in terms of materials, techniques and functions combines splendour with rarity, and the sacred with the secular.

The fabric depicting a quadriga crowned with the laurel wreath, a rare example of Byzantine textile, also draws its iconography from the classical repertoire. According to legend, it is said to come from Charlemagne’s tomb in Aachen.

From one artwork to another

Chapiteau à décor d'acanthe, abbaye de Saint-Denis, Cl. 12114 a © GrandPalaisRmn / Michel Urtado

Chapiteaux à décor d'acanthe

Ve, VIe ou VIIe siècle