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From Picasso’s “Guernica” to Goya’s “Disasters of War,” there have been many famous depictions of conflict, but one of the oldest, and most extraordinary, is France’s 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry.
Over 70 meters of 70-centimeter wide linen cloth (around 224 feet by 2 inches), it tells the story surrounding the conquest of England in 1066 — the last time the country was successfully invaded by a hostile foreign force — by William, Duke of Normandy, also known as William the…
