COLLECTION NAME:
Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images
Record
ID_Number:
WBD_01702
Creator name:
unknown
Title:
Krak des Chevaliers, passage ways with barrel vaults
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:
vaults (structural elements)
Subject:
barrel vaults
Subject:
engineering
Subject:
passages (circulation spaces)
Subject:
stonework
Culture:
Syrian Islamic
Culture:
French
Category:
Architecture and City Planning
Work_type:
castle (fortification)
Work_type:
vaults (structural elements)
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_01702.tif
