Detail View: Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images:

ID_Number: 
WBD_01696
Creator name: 
unknown
Title: 
Krak des Chevaliers, Crusader frescoes inside Baibar's Mosque (former Hospitaller chapel) showing minbar (pulpit),
View description: 
full view
Date: 
ca. 1271
Date type: 
creation
Location: 
Syria (historical)
Location type: 
general region
Location: 
Hims, Syria
Location type: 
site
Repository name: 
Krak des Chevaliers (Qalʻat al-Ḥiṣn, Syria)
Repository name variant: 
Castle of the Knights
Repository location: 
Qalʻat al-Ḥiṣn, Syria
Style_Period: 
Crusader (style)
Style_Period: 
13th Century
Style_Period name variant: 
thirteenth century
Subject: 
castles (fortifications)
Subject: 
Crusades
Subject: 
Mamluk (Egyptian and Syrian Islamic style and period)
Subject: 
chapels (rooms or structures)
Subject: 
mosques
Subject: 
frescoes (paintings)
Culture: 
Syrian Islamic
Culture: 
French
Category: 
Architecture and City Planning
Category: 
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Work_type: 
castle (fortification)
Work_type: 
frescoes (paintings)
Copy_Source: 
digital image
Image_Source: 
Walter Denny disk
Note: 
originally a Hospitaller chapel, converted into a mosque after Krak des Chevaliers fell to the Mamluk Sultan, Baibars, in 1271
Rights Reproduction & Access: 
Copyrighted material--for educational use only
Filename: 
WBD_01696.tif