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| 15th century | Left, two pavilions and three bell tents.
White pavilion, dark triangular banners fly from poles at either end of the roof, no other apex decoration, alternate red and light blue decoration on roof, the roof edge overlaps the wall top, no guy ropes or pegs visible. The other tents are decorated similarly, one of the bell tents has it's door flap tied in a bundle, and another bell tent has blue swirls descending from it's apex. |
'This fifteenth century version of King Minos' retreat after his unsuccessful
siege of Athens reveals the reason why most generals tried to avoid a direct
invasion of a walled Renaissance city. Whenever possible a siege was used
as a blockade, with the attacker hoping to starve the town into submission.
Musee de Beaux Arts, Algiers: Giraudon.' |
Mee, C.L., Lorenzo De Medici and the Renaissance, London, 1969, p. 64 - 65. |
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