Detail View: Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images:
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ID_Number:
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WBD_01702
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Creator name:
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unknown
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Title:
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Krak des Chevaliers, passage ways with barrel vaults
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View description:
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full view
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Date:
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ca. 1271
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Date type:
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creation
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Location:
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Syria (historical)
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Location type:
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general region
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Location:
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Hims, Syria
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Location type:
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site
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Repository name:
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Krak des Chevaliers (Qalʻat al-Ḥiṣn, Syria)
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Repository name variant:
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Castle of the Knights
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Repository location:
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Qalʻat al-Ḥiṣn, Syria
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Style_Period:
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Crusader (style)
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Style_Period:
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13th Century
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Style_Period name variant:
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thirteenth century
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Subject:
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castles (fortifications)
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Subject:
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Crusades
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Subject:
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Mamluk (Egyptian and Syrian Islamic style and period)
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Subject:
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vaults (structural elements)
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Subject:
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barrel vaults
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Subject:
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engineering
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Subject:
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passages (circulation spaces)
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Subject:
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stonework
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Culture:
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Syrian Islamic
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Culture:
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French
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Category:
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Architecture and City Planning
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Work_type:
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castle (fortification)
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Work_type:
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vaults (structural elements)
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Copy_Source:
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digital image
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Image_Source:
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Walter Denny disk
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Note:
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originally a Hospitaller chapel, converted into a mosque after Krak des Chevaliers fell to the Mamluk Sultan, Baibars, in 1271
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Rights Reproduction & Access:
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Copyrighted material--for educational use only
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Filename:
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WBD_01702.tif
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