Arrival in Africa. Giulio Romano (Italian, 1492/99-1546) (designed after) [painter] Mattens, Hendrick (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1600 Tapestry Dimensions: H 315 x W 270 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk; metallic thread (gold); metallic thread (silver) Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Inventory of Carlos III (1788). Inventory of Fernando VII (1834). Spain, Madrid, Palacio Real de Madrid, accno. Inscriptions: Inscriptions indentifying left border figures (top to bottom): RESVRRECTIO[N], SENECTVS, TEMPVS
Arrival in Africa. Giulio Romano (Italian, 1492/99-1546) (designed after) [painter] Mattens, Hendrick (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1600 Tapestry Dimensions: H 315 x W 270 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk; metallic thread (gold); metallic thread (silver) Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Inventory of Carlos III (1788). Inventory of Fernando VII (1834). Spain, Madrid, Palacio Real de Madrid, accno. Inscriptions: Inscriptions indentifying left border figures (top to bottom): RESVRRECTIO[N], SENECTVS, TEMPVS Inscriptions: Inscriptions indentifying lower border figures (L to R): TYRANNIS, FVGA, OBEDIENTIA, PATIENTIA Inscriptions: Inscriptions indentifying right border figures (top to bottom): LVXVS, CARISTIA, RAPTVS Scipio with his men in boat (L, foreground); greeted by another boat (R, foreground); men in tent (R, middle ground); boats at sea (L, background); cityscape on coast (R, background) (UPR BRD) putti interspersed with garlands of foliage & fruit; (L & R BRD) allegorical figures in architectural niches with inscriptions beneath them; (LWR BRD); seated allegorical figures with inscriptions, interspersed with male winged figures terminating in acanthus base & hold cornucopias, soldier in center Based on Giulio Romano's designs for the "Scipio" series made for François I of France (Campbell). The Junquera de Vega shows the panel with borders, but the right side of GCPA 0240144 is seen as 2 individual fragments (Dimitrova). Junquera de Vega, Catalogo de Tapices, Vol. I (1986), 193-205, series 28, no. 5 Paris (Grand Palais), Jules Romain (1978), 73-77 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0240140-0240145; another set in series (similar borders): GCPA 0240192-0240193
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