COLLECTION NAME:
Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images
Record
ID_Number:
WBD_01707
Creator name:
unknown
Title:
Krak des Chevaliers
Title:
Castle of the Knights
View description:
Detail view of wall
Date:
1031 - 1271
Date type:
Creation
Date notes:
Originally constructed 1031, rebuilt 1142 - 1271
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:
11th century
Style_Period name variant:
eleventh century (dates CE)
Style_Period:
13th Century
Style_Period name variant:
thirteenth century
Style_Period:
Medieval (European)
Style_Period name variant:
Middle Ages
Subject:
castles (fortifications)
Subject:
Crusades
Subject:
limestone
Subject:
Military architecture
Culture:
European
Category:
Architecture and City Planning
Work_type:
castle (fortification)
Copy_Source:
digital image
Image_Source:
Walter Denny disk
Rights Reproduction & Access:
UMass Amherst University Libraries, Image Collection Library
Rights Reproduction & Access:
For educational use only
Filename:
WBD_01707.tif
