Tapestry in the Baroque : new aspects of production and patronage

Publication/Creation:

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Tapestry in the Baroque : new aspects of production and patronage / edited by Thomas P. Campbell and Elizabeth A.H. Cleland

Series Titles:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia
Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia.

Related/Included Titles:

Tapestry in the Baroque : threads of splendor.

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Additional Author/Creators:

Campbell, Thomas P. (Thomas Patrick), 1962-
Cleland, Elizabeth A. H.
Brosens, Koenraad
Denis, Isabelle
Vittet, Jean
Bertrand, Pascal-François, 1956-
Hubach, Hanns
Hartkamp-Jonxis, Ebeltje
Forti Grazzini, Nello
De Meûter, Ingrid
Harper, James G., 1965-
Patrizi, Florence
Herrero Carretero, Concha
Delmarcel, Guy
García Calvo, Margarita
Bremer-David, Charissa
Knothe, Florian
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings
Electronic books

Subjects:

Tapestry, Baroque--Congresses
Tapestry--Europe--History--17th century--Congresses
Tapestry--Europe--History--18th century--Congresses

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

An introduction to the exhibition / Thomas P. Campbell -- Tapestry production. New light on the Brussels Raes workshop and Rubens's Achilles series / Koenraad Brosens -- A new look at the Story of Coriolanus / Isabelle Denis -- Charles de Comans's posthumous 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.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).

General Note:

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.

Local Note:

Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.

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Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937368336902486