Fortune. Orley, Bernart van (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Gossaert, Jan (Netherlandish (before 1600) - North Netherlands, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Aelst, Pieter van (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1520-1523 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk (weft); metallic thread (gold, weft); metallic thread (silver, weft) Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Charles V coll., Seville. Spain, Segovia, Segovia, Palaci
Fortune. Orley, Bernart van (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Gossaert, Jan (Netherlandish (before 1600) - North Netherlands, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Aelst, Pieter van (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1520-1523 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk (weft); metallic thread (gold, weft); metallic thread (silver, weft) Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Charles V coll., Seville. Spain, Segovia, Segovia, Palacio de San Ildefonso, accno. A. 265-7818 (or, PN. ). Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border, left banderole: OMNIA VEL VOTO LONGE MELIORA FERUNTUR/IPSAQUE MORS PRESENS SORTE FAVENTE FUGIT Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border, center banderole: HINC SPARGENS FORTUNA ROSAS HINC SAXA VOLUNTANS/LUDIT ET ARBITRIO CUNCTA SUOPTE REGIT Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border, right banderole: NIL NISI TRISTE CADIT QUIBUS EST FORTUNA SINISTRA/MILLEQUE FUNCTIS MORS VENIT ATRA MODIS Blindfolded Fortune rides horse, surrounded by sea waters & scatters roses with right hand upon those she favors & stones with her left hand upon her victims (center, top); wheel of Fortune is governed by figure (center, foreground); rim of wheel is surmounted by royal attributes (scepter, crown, spear) & bears inscriptions (Prosperity, Honor, Adversity, Poverty), figures favored by Fortune protected by Phoebus Apollo include Andromeda & Perseus, Arion, Romulus & Remus, Melantho, Policrates, Danae (left-side of panel); Fortune's victims receive bolts of fire from Vulcan (Hephaestus) in his forge include Cleopatra, Appius Claudius, Priam, Poverty, Hecuba, Athamas, Seleucus (right-side of panel) (BRD) garlands of flowers & fruit interspersed with vessels For complete transcription of the inscriptions, see the Junquera de Vega catalog. This panel belongs to a set of 9 tapestries, entitled "Los Honore
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