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Crowds Gaze in Awe at a Comet, detail of the Bayeux Tapestry, wool embroidery on linen, 20” high, Centre Guillaume le Conquérant, Bayeux, France, Image on website of Ulrich Harsh, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Bayeux Tapestry: Roll It!

The Bayeux Tapestry – which is not actually a tapestry, but an embroidered cloth – is not the first continuous narrative in Western art history.  The Romans created them about 1000 years earlier (see, for example, the sculptural decoration on … Continue reading