Attack on Goleta or Goletta, or La Goulette. Vermeyen, Jan Cornelis (Barbalonga) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - North Netherlands, ) (cartoon creator) [painter] Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (the Elder) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, 1502-1550) (cartoon creator, attr.) [painter] Goten, Jacob van der (the Younger) (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] Goten, Adriaen van der (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] Goten, Cornelis van der (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1740-1743 Tapestry M
Attack on Goleta or Goletta, or La Goulette. Vermeyen, Jan Cornelis (Barbalonga) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - North Netherlands, ) (cartoon creator) [painter] Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (the Elder) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, 1502-1550) (cartoon creator, attr.) [painter] Goten, Jacob van der (the Younger) (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] Goten, Adriaen van der (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] Goten, Cornelis van der (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1740-1743 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk; metallic thread (gold); metallic thread (silver) Culture: Spanish Weaving Center: Madrid Ownership History: Spain, Sevilla, Seville, Real Alcázar. Inscriptions: Inscription in L border cartouche: PLVS OULTRE Inscriptions: Inscription in R border cartouche: IIII / Ymaginase la Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border entablature: Despues de Inscriptions: Inscription in lower border cartouche [partially visible in photograph]: CASTRA MOVET Group of Germans being attacked by Turks & Moors (L & R, foreground); construction of camp near tower (L, middle ground); cavalry (center & R, background); Cape of Carthage (L, background) (BRD) interlacing circles terminating in brackets, cartouches & medallions; (L BRD) central cartouche with 2 columns & inscribed motto; (R BRD) central cartouche with inscription; (UPR BRD) entablature with inscription, coat of arms of Hapsburg family [double-headed eagle] in upper corners; (LWR BRD) central cartouche with inscription, medallions with Decussate Cross of St. Andrew in lower corners This Spanish set of the "Conquest of Tunis" was woven after the original cartoons (now in Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses) designed by Jan Cornelis Vermeyen & woven by Wilhelm de Pannemaker in 1549-1551. Horn, Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (1989), 109-172, 193-195
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