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Landscape coat: Johann Georg I von Sachsen’s spectacular “landscape cloak”, a Christmas gift from his mother in 1611. Six metres in circumference, it is made of blue velvet and embroidered with views of his realm: Dresden, the palace and the river Elbe, complete with stone bridges and sea monsters. Photo: Jürgen Karpinski, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen  SeeContinue reading “Rüstkammer: The Electoral Wardrobe”