Wrath. 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. 360-12151. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border: TVRBINE SCINTILLANS FERVENTI NASCITVR IRA/CVIVS DIRA PIVM DEXTERA NESCIT OPVS Inscriptio

Wrath. 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. 360-12151. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border: TVRBINE SCINTILLANS FERVENTI NASCITVR IRA/CVIVS DIRA PIVM DEXTERA NESCIT OPVS Inscriptions: Inscription in lower border [partially legible in photograph]: HVC GREX SANCTI VENI MALEDICTIS ONIS HABETO Wrath seated on lion-drawn chariot, wearing armor, holding sword & resting foot on skull (L, middle ground), 3 Fates [Parcae] (L, foreground), man on horseback carries banner bearing lion (R, middle ground), landscape with city on fire (background) (BRD) strapwork interspersed with flowers, fruits, animals & figures; (UPR BRD, center) banderole with inscription; (LWR BRD, center) cartouche with figures in center; (L & R BRD) terminal figures, putti playing & holding urns with flames Junquera de Vega, Catalogo de Tapices, Vol. I (1986), 143-149, series 21, no. 3 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0238187-0238191; another similar set (possibly woven after same cartoon): GCPA 0238192-0238195 (Madrid set no. 2)

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