A Fifteenth-Century Tapestry

… In the centre we have Pope Pius II and the Emperor Frederick III seated on the same bench, both wearing sumptuous robes and bearing the insignia of their office ; they are attended by two of the Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, one of whom, the Palatine representative, carries the dishes symbolical of the coronation. This tapestry, therefore, can only be commemorative of one event, namely, the coronation of the Emperor Frederick at Rome in 1452 …

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