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The Towns

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Fig. 10. Festive hall in the Great Guild’s House of Tallinn, 1410. Photograph by Rein Kärner.
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Fig. 11. View of Riga before the fire of 1547, the oldest surviving image of a Livonian town. The Swiss block-cutter added the mountains in the background [Sebastian Münster, (Basel, 1559), p. 788].
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Fig. 12. Detail of the contemporary depiction of the Polish siege of Valmiera in 1601 by Giacomo Lauro. The town, preserving its medieval shape beside the episcopal castle on the River Gauja, was the usual location of the Livonian Diets, despite its small size [, ed. Tytus Działyński (Posnaniae, 1861), plate 5].
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Fig. 13. View of the northern part of Tallinn old town with St Olaf’s church in the centre. The preserved section of the town wall was completed by the fifteenth century and later supplemented by earthen fortifications which were removed in modern centuries. The medieval harbour was situated closer to the town. Photograph by Peeter Säre.
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Fig. 14. Madonna on a crescent moon, originally from the Great Guild’s house of Riga, early sixteenth century (Rīgas vēstures un kuģniecības muzejs). Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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Fig. 15. Bench end of the Tallinn Black Heads’ brotherhood with St George and the coat of arms of the company, 1480s, renovated in 1561 (Tallinna Linnamuuseum). Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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Fig. 16. Altarpiece of the Tallinn Black Heads’ Brotherhood, detail of the second view depicting the double intercession and the donors. Master of the St Lucy legend, Bruges, before 1493. Originally the altarpiece stood in the Black Heads’ chapel in the Dominican church in Tallinn (Niguliste Muuseum, Tallinn). Photograph by Stanislav Stepashko.
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