Atlas supporting heavens on his shoulders. Orley, Bernart van (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (designed after, attr.) [painter] Wezeler, Georg (Flemish, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1530 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'2" x W 11'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk; metallic thread (gold); metallic thread (silver) Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Made for King John III of Portugal, possibly before 1543. Inventory of Carlos II (1701-1703). Inventory of Carlos III (1788). Inventario of Fernando VII (1834). Inventory of "Las Tapicerías de
Atlas supporting heavens on his shoulders. Orley, Bernart van (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (designed after, attr.) [painter] Wezeler, Georg (Flemish, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1530 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'2" x W 11'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk; metallic thread (gold); metallic thread (silver) Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Made for King John III of Portugal, possibly before 1543. Inventory of Carlos II (1701-1703). Inventory of Carlos III (1788). Inventario of Fernando VII (1834). Inventory of "Las Tapicerías de la Corona" (1880). Spain, Madrid, Palacio Real de Madrid, accno. (or, PN. ). Inscriptions: Weaver mark on right guard, bottom Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border banderole: INGENS FAMA, SED / ALTERIVS, EA EST, IGEPS [INOPS?] Atlas kneels with raised arms, supports sphere [globe=heavens] (center), Aurora stands with arms raised & crowned with flowers next to figure of Moon with crescent moon & star above her head (L), 4 maidens as Hours pour water from their amphoras (R), dragon (R, foreground), Mercury (Hermes) with caduceus (L, upper corner) & Urania with armillary sphere on pole (R, upper corner) (BRD) garland of flowers, fruit, birds & animals with interlacing ribbon; (UPR BRD) sphere, inscription in banderole (center) 2nd tapestry in set of 3. However, in the 1880 inventory of the royal tapestries, a 4th panel was listed entitled "Coriolanus before Rome with Veturia & Volumnia" that had the same borders & height (GCPA 0237667). New York (Met), Resplendence (1991), 55-67, no. 6 Junquera de Vega, Catalogo de Tapices, Vol. I (1986), 100-103, series 15, panel no. 2 Göbel, Wandteppiche I:1 (1923), 146 Göbel, Wandteppiche I:2 (1923), no. 114 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0238366-0238368; stylistically similar tapestry (same borders), GCPA 0237667
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