Date | Description | Source | Reference |
1450 A.D. | The bell tent like canopy over the bed shows how it is held up by rope via a pulley. | Figure 23. Miniature painting in the Book of Hours of Alfonso V of Aragon. Spain (?), about 1450. British Library, London, (Add. MS. 28962, fol. 14v). | Cavallo, A.S., Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993, p. 26. |
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