Lust. Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (the Younger) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (author of design) [painter] c. 1545 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk (weft); metallic thread (gold, weft); metallic thread (silver, weft) Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Count Egmont coll., Brussels. Philip II coll., Madrid. Spain, Madrid, Palacio Real de Madrid, accno. A. 257-7429. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border: CVRA PLACENS PRAEDVLCE MALVM TRISTIQ VOLVPTAS/HEV VESANA FVRENS PECTORA CAECAT AMOR Inscri
Lust. Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (the Younger) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (author of design) [painter] c. 1545 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk (weft); metallic thread (gold, weft); metallic thread (silver, weft) Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Count Egmont coll., Brussels. Philip II coll., Madrid. Spain, Madrid, Palacio Real de Madrid, accno. A. 257-7429. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border: CVRA PLACENS PRAEDVLCE MALVM TRISTIQ VOLVPTAS/HEV VESANA FVRENS PECTORA CAECAT AMOR Inscriptions: Inscription in lower border [partially legible in photograph]: TORQVENTEM MEA MEMBRA SITIM SEDASTIS AMARAM Lust holding mirror & cup, standing on chariot drawn by animal with 7 heads (L, middle ground), couple embracing (L, foreground), Hercules (Heracles/Herakles) holding club (L of center, foreground), possibly King Salomon on horseback (center, foreground), cupid throwing arrows & female figure on horseback holding banner bearing he-goat (R, middle ground) Junquera de Vega, Catalogo de Tapices, Vol. I (1986), 143-149, series 21, no. 2 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0238187-0238191; another similar set (possibly woven after same cartoons), GCPA 0238192-0238195 (Madrid set no. 2)
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