NOBILES OFFICINAE - Silk, Gold and Pearls
Courtly Art from Palermo
April 1 till June 13, 2004
KHM, Old Ecclesiastical Treasury
Swiss Court, Hofburg Palace, 1010 Vienna

In the Nobiles Officinae, Moslems and both Greek-Orthodox and Roman-Catholic Christians, who were probably all classed as "local artists", were employed side by side. more culture >>>

fig.: Die Krone der Konstanze von Aragon
Palermo, Königliche Werkstatt, um 1220 - 1222
© Palermo, Schatzkammer der Kathedrale