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CROWN.

An interdisciplinary research project on the Imperial Crown

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Video about the project CROWN.

Press photographs

[jpg] Imperial Crown (1.5 MB) Western Germany(?), second half of tenth century(?) with later
additions. Gold, enamel, gemstones, glass stones, pearls, iron
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Secular Treasury
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[jpg] Set-up for taking images (715 KB) with the 3D-digital microscope
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[jpg] Set-up for taking images (690 KB) from the inside of the front plate
with the 3D-digital microscope
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[jpg] Imperial Crown (632 KB) Western Germany(?), second half of tenth century(?) with later
additions. Gold, enamel, gemstones, glass stones, pearls, iron
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Secular Treasury
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[jpg] Imperial Crown (0.9 MB) Detail: the enamel plate featuring a depiction of King Hezekiah and the Prophet Isaiah
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[jpg] Imperial Crown (1.5 MB) Detail: left side-plate
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[jpg] Imperial Crown (1.3 MB) Detail: inside of the broken side-plate, repaired with a bow-shaped piece of gold plate
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[jpg] High-resolution image assembled from several microscopic images (2.7 MB) from the enamel plate featuring a depiction of King Solomon (detail)
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[jpg] Imperial Crown (1.9 MB) Detail: enamel plate depicting King Solomon
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[jpg] Decorative element detail on the circlet (0.9 MB) 3D-digital microscope image, using mirrors with motorized rotation, 20x magnification
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[jpg] Intaglio depicting a half-length maenad with a theatre mask (50–25 BCE) (1.3 MB) on the back plate of the circlet
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[jpg] Sapphire of exceptional quality on the left side-plate (1.5 MB) 3D-digital microscope scan,
30x magnification
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[jpg] Large spinel in the centre on the front plate (1.5 MB) 3D-digital microscope scan,
30x magnification
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[jpg] Set-up for taking images from the inside of the circlet (644 KB) with the 3D-digital microscope, using a flex arm stand
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[jpg] Examinations with the 3D-digital microscope (656 KB) Teresa Lamers and Herbert Reitschuler positioning the circlet
while taking photographs with the 3D-digital microscope
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[jpg] Raman measurement for gemstone analysis (488 KB) Teresa Lamers and Annalena Erlacher preparing a Raman measurement while analysing the gemstones
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[jpg] Imperial Regalia (1.1 MB) Imperial crown, imperial orb and imperial sword as important parts of the so-called imperial regalia, which have been used continuously for coronations of the sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire (of the German Nation) since the fifteenth century
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Secular Treasury
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Press contact

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
1010 Vienna, Burgring 5

Nina Auinger-Sutterlüty, MAS
presse@khm.at
T +43 1 525 24 - 4021

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