photo by Swissrock on Flickr.
Hluboka Castle - South Bohemia, Czech Republic. In 1940, the castle was seized from the last owner, Adolph Schwarzenberg by the Gestapo and confiscated by the government of Czechoslovakia after the end of WWII. The castle has been used in a scene of Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson’s Shanghai Knights.
Earrings
Byzantine, 600 AD
The Walters Museum
“These dramatic, colorful earrings were most likely made in Constantinople, perhaps as an imperial gift to a Visigothic ruler of medieval Spain, where the earrings were found. The Visigoths, a migratory group that ultimately settled in Spain, had by the 6th century established trade and diplomatic contacts with the Byzantine court, whose jewelry they much admired.”
