Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries) The artistic interchange in Renaissance times between Italy andthe Orient can be discerned in many ways, not the least significant ofwhich is the constant recurrence in Italian paintings of the period ofthe rugs of Persia and Asia Minor. Through Italy, of course, cameto the more northerly countries those tapetti which Holbein so de-lighted to portray that we are wont to classify their existing originalsas H
Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries) The artistic interchange in Renaissance times between Italy andthe Orient can be discerned in many ways, not the least significant ofwhich is the constant recurrence in Italian paintings of the period ofthe rugs of Persia and Asia Minor. Through Italy, of course, cameto the more northerly countries those tapetti which Holbein so de-lighted to portray that we are wont to classify their existing originalsas Holbein rugs, and direct to Italy some three or four hundredyears ago came these rugs which formed part of the furnishings ofthe Davanzati Palace. This it is that gives them so peculiar a desirability in the eyesof modern collectors, for they embody not only the singular geniusfor color and pattern of their Eastern weavers, but also the deco-rative taste and feeling of the Patrician families of Cinquecento Italyfor the adornment of whose palaces and villas they were unloaded onthe quays of Genoa and Venice. H. T. VELVET AND LINEN CUSHIONS AND TEXTILES. # 76—Two Sixteenth Century Italian Lvsnu^/^^(jf^^t(Rectangular shape. Covered in red satin embroider^ in -old iread at the corners, with designs of cornucopia filled with conventional flowers and with deep borders of Heigh t, 1 foot :V-{ inches; width, 1 foot 10y2 inches.
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