. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. ng to become beau-tiful. Never since then have weavers displayed the same skill. Prob-ably the first Scipio tapestries made from the designs of GiulioRomano were the Francis I set, rich with gold, in twenty-two pieces,four French amies high with coml)ined width of a hundred and twentyFrench aunes (roughly, 16 by 480 fe
. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. ng to become beau-tiful. Never since then have weavers displayed the same skill. Prob-ably the first Scipio tapestries made from the designs of GiulioRomano were the Francis I set, rich with gold, in twenty-two pieces,four French amies high with coml)ined width of a hundred and twentyFrench aunes (roughly, 16 by 480 feet), woven in Brussels by MarcCretif and burned for the gold they contained in 1797. [Note: Thelength of a French aune is 46% inches, roughly 4 feet or one andone-fifth metres.] The most conqjlete descriptive list that we have of Francis IsScipio tapestries is from a royal inventory of about 1660, rejjroducedby Reiset in his Desseins au Musee Imperial du Louvre, Paris, widths of the different tapestries are given in French aunes. Thefirst thirteen of the tapestries pictm-ed the Deeds of Scipio; the lastnine the Triimij^h of Scipio. By some strange and fortunate chance fifteen of Giulio Romanosoriginal Scipio drawings (i)etits patrons) have been preserved and 277. Ilatf \11-()LK 1,AJ)V OK eiii-ly Renaissance tapestry in the Brussels .Musciiii
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