Art History
400-1300 Medieval Era

Islamic Art

  1. Two Royal Figures (Saljuq Period)
  2. Coronation Mantle
  3. Ilkhanid Mihrab
  4. Hebrew Astrolabe
  5. Qa'a: The Damascus Room

Coronation Mantle Likely made for the Norman ruler Roger II in 1133/34 in the royal workshop in Palermo of fabric from Byzantium or Thebes, Samite, silk, gold, pearls, filigree, sapphires, garnets, glass, and cloisonné enamel. The Kufic script reads: "This mantle was worked in the most magnificent clothing workshop and is connected with the desire and hopes, felicitous days and nights without cease or change, with authority, with honor and felicity, assurances of trust, reverent care, protection, good destiny, freedom from harm, triumph and livelihood in the capital city of Sicily in the year 528" (or 1133/34 in the Gregorian calendar). Neue Hofburg, Vienna.

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Coronation Mantle

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