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.

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