Cyrus prohibits Lydians use of arms. unknown c. 1590 Tapestry Dimensions: H 337 x W 315 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Antwerp Ownership History: Inventory of Carlos III (1788). Inventory of Fernando VII (1834). Inventory of "Las Tapicerías de la Corona" (1880). Spain, Madrid, Palacio Real de Madrid, accno. Inscriptions: Weaver mark on right guard, bottom [not visible in photograph] Seated female musician surrounded by 3 standing musicians (L, foreground); Cyrus wearing crown, stands next to another man (center, middle ground); group
Cyrus prohibits Lydians use of arms. unknown c. 1590 Tapestry Dimensions: H 337 x W 315 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Antwerp Ownership History: Inventory of Carlos III (1788). Inventory of Fernando VII (1834). Inventory of "Las Tapicerías de la Corona" (1880). Spain, Madrid, Palacio Real de Madrid, accno. Inscriptions: Weaver mark on right guard, bottom [not visible in photograph] Seated female musician surrounded by 3 standing musicians (L, foreground); Cyrus wearing crown, stands next to another man (center, middle ground); group of soldiers [Lydians ?] carrying weapons (R, middle ground); landscape (center, background) (BRD) vignettes with seated female personifications of Virtues, enclosed by 2 columns & framed by flowers & fruit; interspersed with bunches of flowers & fruit, grotesques Junquera de Vega, Catalogo de Tapices, Vol. I (1986), 290-296, series 40, ; 279-289, series 39, Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0241898-0241901, 0123376-0123377; another similar set (different borders): Madrid, Patrimonio Nacional, series 39, "Historia de Ciro el grande" (10 panels; see Junquera de Vega, 279-289)
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