COLLECTION NAME:
Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images
Record
ID_Number:
WBD_01532
Creator name:
unknown
Title:
Mosaic Depicting an Elephant with its Trunk Around the Neck of a Lion
View description:
detail
Date:
ca. 450-640
Date type:
creation
Location:
Great Palace of the Emperors (Istanbul, Turkey)
Location type:
former repository
Repository name:
Great Palace Mosaic Museum
Repository name variant:
Buyuk Saray Mozaikleri Muzesi
Repository location:
Istanbul, Turkey
Style_Period:
Byzantine
Style_Period:
5th century
Style_Period name variant:
fifth century
Style_Period:
6th century
Style_Period name variant:
sixth century
Style_Period:
7th century
Style_Period name variant:
seventh century
Subject:
animals
Subject:
wild animals
Subject:
mythologies (religious concept)
Subject:
lion (species)
Subject:
elephant
Subject:
mosaics (visual works)
Subject:
courtyards
Culture:
Byzantine
Culture:
Constantinopolitan
Category:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Work_type:
mosaics (visual works)
Material_Technique:
mosaic (process)
Copy_Source:
digital image
Image_Source:
Walter Denny disk
Relation:
Great palace of Constantinople
Relation type:
former component of
Relation:
Great palace Mosaic Museum
Relation type:
current component of
Rights Reproduction & Access:
Copyrighted material - for educational use only
Filename:
WBD_01532.tif
