Fragment of brown fabric. Inside a medallion, there is a scene featuring a character on a chariot pulled by horses.

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

Carved ivory plaque depicting a Crucifixion scene surrounded by historical scenes. Front view.

Bookbinding plate, Crucifixion, Holy Women at the Tomb, Ascension and Christ Blessing, Cl. 13064 © GrandPalaisRmn / Michel Urtado

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