Following the news that the Pompidou Centre is closing for five years, another famous French attraction is shutting down for ...

Consisting of 58 scenes stitched into the linen cloth in different colors of wool, the medieval work of art — which is technically ... The last scene on the Bayeux Tapestry shows the Battle ...

King Harold II, one of the subjects of the Bayeux Tapestry, was famously killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Well, because the Bayeux Tapestry, an astonishingly long and beautifully made work of art, chronicles the 1066 Battle of Hastings. The approximately 230-foot-long tapestry is displayed in a dark ...

France, the Bayeux Tapestry is considered a rare example of secular Romanesque art, similar in its narrative style to a cartoon strip. Indeed, cartoonist Scott McCloud used it as an example of ...