Nothing replaces the actual contemplation of a work of art.
What the Bayeux museums site now allows is an emotion of a different order, virtual certainly, but unprecedented.
Rather than doing needlework in the corner of the hearth while waiting for the reopening of places of culture, you can connect and scroll through the images, read the Latin text and its translation, observe rides and fights, follow a hero named Harold, and discover that he will betray… The twists and the mysteries follow one another, it is as fascinating as a series.
Taming the digital image of this embroidery which tells the story of William the Conqueror, the conquest of England by the Norman bastard in 1066 and the battle of Hastings takes time.
By enlarging each detail, everything is obvious: the helmets provided with the "nose", the high shields decorated with dragons and geometric figures, the coats of mail, the horses, the sails, the Mont-Saint-Michel, the mysterious characters
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