Scenes from Life of St. Paul. Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (the Younger) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Pannemaker, Wilhelm de (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, act. 1535-1578) (workshop, attr.) [weaver] c. 1535-1565 Tapestry Dimensions: H 13'5" x W 22'11" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp, 7/cm); wool & silk (dyed, weft) Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Private coll. ? (Austria). Bachstitz Gallery, The Hague. French & Co. purchased from Detroit Institute of Arts 2/21/1947; sold to Museum of
Scenes from Life of St. Paul. Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (the Younger) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Pannemaker, Wilhelm de (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, act. 1535-1578) (workshop, attr.) [weaver] c. 1535-1565 Tapestry Dimensions: H 13'5" x W 22'11" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp, 7/cm); wool & silk (dyed, weft) Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Private coll. ? (Austria). Bachstitz Gallery, The Hague. French & Co. purchased from Detroit Institute of Arts 2/21/1947; sold to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 6/23/1966. United States, Massachusetts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, accno. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border cartouche at left: XII VIRI EPHESII Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border cartouche in center: PLERIQVE EPHESII PER Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border cartouche at right: PAVLO PROLIXIVS Before circular temple (=Temple of Diana at Ephesus), Ephesians burn their books in public as St. Paul looks on (Acts 29:19); upper L corner, Paul baptizing former disciples of 12 Ephesians (Apollos) who receive Holy Ghost (Acts 19:1-7); upper R corner, Eutychus falls out of window while sleeping during Paul's preaching in Troas (Acts 20:9-12) (BRD) bunches of flowers & fruit twisting around palm tree trunk motif interspersed with birds, cornucopias & cherubim; (UPR BRD) cartouches with inscriptions French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 45152 Cavallo, Boston tapestries (1967), 98-103, Cavallo, Boston tapestries (1967), Göbel, Tapestries Lowlands (1974),
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