Bayeux Tapestry

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Romanesque artwork embroidered hanging historical narrative artwork

The Bayeux Tapestry is an 11th-century embroidered cloth that visually narrates the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England and the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Romanesque artwork → embroidered hanging → historical narrative artwork →
associatedWith	Canterbury, Kent, England → surface form: "Canterbury, England (probable workshop)" Odo of Bayeux →
commissionedBy	Odo of Bayeux (traditional attribution) →
condition	incomplete at both ends (probable missing sections) →
country	France →
createdIn	Normandy (administrative region) → surface form: "Normandy (region of origin context)"
currentLocation	Bayeux Museum → Bayeux → surface form: "Bayeux, Normandy, France"
date	11th century → circa 1070 →
depicts	Anglo-Saxon infantry → Battle of Hastings → Halley’s Comet of 1066 → Harold Godwinson NERFINISHED → Norman cavalry → Norman Conquest of England → surface form: "Norman conquest of England" Norman fleet crossing the English Channel → William the Conqueror NERFINISHED → events leading up to the Battle of Hastings →
genre	narrative embroidery → visual chronicle →
hasPart	lower border → main central narrative frieze → marginal scenes with animals and fables → upper border →
height	about 20 inches → about 50 centimetres →
influenced	later depictions of the Norman Conquest → modern comic-strip and sequential art narrative conventions (comparative) →
inscription	Tapestry registered in UNESCO Memory of the World in 2007 →
language	Latin inscriptions →
length	about 230 feet → about 70 metres →
material	linen → wool embroidery thread →
narrativeTime	events of 1064–1066 →
significance	major source for 11th-century arms and armour → major source for 11th-century ships and warfare → primary visual source for the Battle of Hastings →
style	Romanesque →
subject	1066 Norman invasion of England → Anglo-Norman history →
technique	embroidery → laid-and-couched work → stem stitch →
UNESCOStatus	Memory of the World International Register → surface form: "Memory of the World Register"

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Battle of Hastings → commemoratedBy → Bayeux Tapestry →

Norman Conquest of England → symbolizedBy → Bayeux Tapestry →