Battle of Zama. Giulio Romano (Italian, 1492/99-1546) (designed after) [painter] Pannemaker, Wilhelm de (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, act. 1535-1578) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1550 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11' x W 12'10" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: French & Co. Inscriptions: City mark on lower guard; weaver mark on right guard, bottom Inscriptions: Inscriptions indentifying left border figures (top to bottom): RESVRRECTIO, SENECTVS, TEMPVS Inscriptions: Inscriptions indentifying lower border figures (L to R): TYRANNI
Battle of Zama. Giulio Romano (Italian, 1492/99-1546) (designed after) [painter] Pannemaker, Wilhelm de (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, act. 1535-1578) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1550 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11' x W 12'10" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: French & Co. Inscriptions: City mark on lower guard; weaver mark on right guard, bottom Inscriptions: Inscriptions indentifying left border figures (top to bottom): RESVRRECTIO, SENECTVS, TEMPVS Inscriptions: Inscriptions indentifying lower border figures (L to R): TYRANNIS, OBEDIENTIA, Inscriptions: Inscriptions indentifying right border figures (top to bottom): LVXVS, CARISTIA, RAPTVS Battlefield with warring soldiers, some on horseback, several fallen (center, foreground); elephants ridden by soldiers with spears, bows-&-arrows, swords (center, middle ground) (UPR BRD) putti interspersed with garlands of foliage with fruit; (L & R BRD) allegorical figures in architectural niches with inscriptions below; (LWR BRD); seated allegorical figures with inscriptions interspersed with male winged figures terminating in acanthus base & hold cornucopias, soldier in center No French & Co. stock sheet in archive, no stock number Junquera de Vega, Catalogo de Tapices, Vol. I (1986), 176-184, series 26, no. 5 Paris (Grand Palais), Jules Romain (1978), 94-101 Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestry (in reverse), GCPA 0240153-0240154
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