Tapestry in the Baroque :

Tapestry in the Baroque : new aspects of production and patronage / edited by Thomas P. Campbell and Elizabeth A.H. Cleland. - New York : New Haven ; Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art ; c2010. - 359 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm. - The Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia . - Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia. .

Papers presented at the symposium held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 20-21, 2007, in conjunction with the exhibition "Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor" held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 17, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

An introduction to the exhibition / Thomas P. Campbell -- Tapestry production. New light on the Raes workshop in Brussels and Rubens's Achilles series / Koenraad Brosens -- A new look at the Story of Coriolanus / Isabelle Denis -- Charles de Comans's post-mortem inventory, 1635 / Jean Vittet -- A question of scale: was it necessary to weave Poussin's paintings? / Pascal-François Bertrand -- Patronage. Tales from the tapestry collection of Elector Palatine Frederick V and Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter King and Queen / Hanns Hubach -- Mannerist, baroque, and classicist: narrative tapestries and related paintings in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holland / Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis -- On the tapestries in seventeenth-century Milan: some new findings / Nello Forti Grazzini -- An altar frontal for the Jesuit church in Rome after an unknown design by Rubens / Ingrid De Meûter -- The sun also riseth: the Barberini Apollo series as an allegory of rise, fall, and return / James G. Harper -- Tapestries in the Colonna collection / Florence Patrizi -- Tapestries for court and ecclesiastical use in seventeenth-century Spain / Concha Herrero Carretero -- Spanish family pride in Flemish wool and silk: the Moncada family and its baroque tapestry collection / Guy Delmarcel, Margarita García Calvo, and Koenraad Brosens -- The tapestry patronage of Madame de Montespan and her family / Charissa Bremer-David -- Tapestry as a medium of propaganda at the court of Louis XIV: display and audience -- / Florian Knothe.

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Tapestry--History--Europe--17th century--Congresses.
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