European Post-medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume 1Tapestry making flourished in the major centers of western Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Thousands of tapestries were woven as special commissions for church, crown, and nobility. This publication is a comprehensive catalogue of the Museum's collection of tapestries and allied works made after the Middle Ages.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website. |
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Antoine Caron arms Audran background Bernaert van Orley birds blue and yellow blue-green Brussels Château Cleopatra cloak collection corner costume Croome Court dark blue decorated Diana Diane de Poitiers drapery dress dull red dull yellow Fenaille figures Flemish foreground François Boucher Galerie Georges Petit Gallery George Blumenthal Giulio Romano Göbel Gobelins Gobelins manufactory gold gray and brown green and yellow ground head holds illus inscription Jean John Goldsmith landscape leg coverings Lewknor Louvre lower border medallion metal thread MMA Bulletin Mobilier National Musée painting pale blue pale brown pale yellow panels Paris pieces Quentin Massys red and yellow red-brown RELATED TAPESTRIES robe scene seated seen shades shows side silk sleeves sold Sotheby's Standen SUBJECT Tapisseries trees upper border Wandteppiche warps per inch wears WEAVER AND DATE weaving wings woman woven yellow-gray York