. 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. Plate XIII—MARSYAS FLAYED BY APOLLORenaissance tapestry in ttie Royal Spanish collection Plate XIV—THE CREATION OF EVERenaissance tapestry in the Tapestry Gallery at Florence 281. « l- — « OS r S <6h RENAISSANCE TAPESTRIES designs. The fact is that Bernard \an Orley, living in Brusselsas he did, thoroughly understoo
. 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. Plate XIII—MARSYAS FLAYED BY APOLLORenaissance tapestry in ttie Royal Spanish collection Plate XIV—THE CREATION OF EVERenaissance tapestry in the Tapestry Gallery at Florence 281. « l- — « OS r S <6h RENAISSANCE TAPESTRIES designs. The fact is that Bernard \an Orley, living in Brusselsas he did, thoroughly understood tapestry texture, and all of histapestries, even those that are most Italian, are full of the rich effectsinherited from Gothic tapestries. It is interesting to note that theHunts took place in the vicinity of Brussels, and that the Maximiliannamed Mas the Emperor Maximilian who was the grandfather ofCharles V. TAPESTRY SIGNATUKES The signatures of Renaissance tapestries are exceedingly interest-ing. Gothic tapestries were seldom signed. In the second quarter ofthe sixteenth century the hahit of signing tapestries hecame , in the year 1528, the practice was confirmed legally hy theEmperor Charles V for Brussels, and in 1544 for the rest of theNetherlands. During the sixteenth century Brussels tapestries weresigned with the Brussels mark, two cajjital Bs in yellow on each sideof a red shield, in the hottom selvage, and usually o
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