December: slaughter of swine. Bramantino (Italian, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Benedetto da Milano (Italian, act. ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1503-1509 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk (warps: 5-6/cm) Culture: Italian Weaving Center: , LombardyVigevano Ownership History: Commissioned by Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (1436-1518). Italy, Lombardy, Milano, Milan, Castello sforzesco, Civiche raccolte d'arte antica, accno. 39. Inscriptions: Inscription in lower central field: GAVDERE PARTP CVM GREGE / CASA FRVI AVCVPE ET S
December: slaughter of swine. Bramantino (Italian, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Benedetto da Milano (Italian, act. ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1503-1509 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk (warps: 5-6/cm) Culture: Italian Weaving Center: , LombardyVigevano Ownership History: Commissioned by Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (1436-1518). Italy, Lombardy, Milano, Milan, Castello sforzesco, Civiche raccolte d'arte antica, accno. 39. Inscriptions: Inscription in lower central field: GAVDERE PARTP CVM GREGE / CASA FRVI AVCVPE ET SVES / DECEMBER OPERAM INERTIBVS Inscriptions: Inscription in cartouche: NETES MAI [=motto] / IO. IA. TRIVS. MAR. VIGL. FRANCIE MARES [Gian Giacomo Trivulzio marchese di Vigavano maresciallo di Francia] In large stone-vaulted room, large copper cauldron over fire in center tended by kneeling man with woman stirs contents (sausages) while man embraces her from behind, man with axe stands next to 2 pigs (R), man inflating pig's blatter to serve a baloon for small child (L); peasants bring offerings to god Saturn [=personification of December] a bearded old man with bound feet, holding sickle & standing on plinth in center of room; in upper register are a central cartouche with the arms, impresa (a siren breaking a file on a diamond), & motto of the patron, flanked by 2 coronas representing the sun (L), & the zodiac sign for Capricorn (R) (BRD) hexagonal compartments, linked by rosettes, containing a repeating sequence of 5 coats of arms [patron's in corners & at mid-points]; (UPR & LWR BRD) identifying inscription around each coat of arms Designed by Bramantino in 1501-4. The coats of arms on the border may allude to the 1503 marriage of Gian Giacomo Trivulzio to Paola di Ridolfo Gonzaga. New York (Met), Tapestry in the Renaissance (2002), 123-129, cat. 11 Valsecchi, Arazzi dei mesi (1968) Viale Ferrero, Arazzi italiani (1961), 19, pl. 13 (det.) Göbel, Wandteppiche II:1 (1928), 4
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