The third french activity: the Bayeux tapestry

HorseNorman essential to fighting the horse is

omnipresent on the Bayeux Tapestry: it would thus be 190 horses that would traverse the

work! Small, horses, stallions, more resemble large ponies as Percherons today. From the perspective of art, they are superb! Their

tack is equivalent to the current equipment: bridle, reins, bits, saddle with stirrups, irons

under the hooves ...For you to work   :

* I cutting the horse's head below. Repeatedly postpones its outline in pencil on a drawing

sheet as above. There are then several possibilities:

- Either take 4 colors from the Bayeux Tapestry and paint horses,

- Or choose a color and color gradually lightening the color of the horse that is

"above" that which is "below". 

. A fantastic palace

• . A fantastic palace• ı your turn, cutting 

and assembling these constructions, create your own palate by trying to hold it in a triangle as shown against. your collage finished reproduce it on a sheet of drawing letting go Cutting your imagination ... as you please these buildings ... This is a example but, course, all combinations are possible ...

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The boat

• The boatWe find a forty boats

on the Bayeux Tapestry, including 18 in the famous scene of the Channel crossing in the conquest of England by William the Conqueror. The most beautiful, "Mora", offered by Mathilde to her husband, carries a lantern surmounted a cross atop its mast.

Activity : By helping you grid, this boat is reprodu below by drawing first a similar grid in pencil. One can of course expand this grid on a large sheet.

4. An adventure • To the imagination! This

sheet aims to suggest an individual adventure, that of a knight who leaves his castle, crossed the Channel and fighting in the Battle of Hastings. It is a question of resuming elements of the Bayeux Tapestry, to create "how to ..." customize. 3 scenes below evoke an adventure. They can be enlarged, modified and / or encourage the writing of a story ...

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