. 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. ary ruler of theNetherlands, Charles, and bis bi-other Ferdinand. GIULIO ROMANO The two most lirolific tapestry designers of the Renaissance werethe Italian Giulio Romano, who was Raphaels favourite pupil, andthe Fleming Bernard van Orley, who is said to have also worked inRaphaels studio. The Scipio designs created by
. 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. ary ruler of theNetherlands, Charles, and bis bi-other Ferdinand. GIULIO ROMANO The two most lirolific tapestry designers of the Renaissance werethe Italian Giulio Romano, who was Raphaels favourite pupil, andthe Fleming Bernard van Orley, who is said to have also worked inRaphaels studio. The Scipio designs created by Giulio Romano in illustration ofLivys History of Rome were wonderfully popular, and were not onlythemselves re2)roduced with more or less fidelity in tapestry duringthe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but also inspired a host ofother Scipio tapestries along similar lines. Parts of the story that hadseemed neglected or treated briefly in Giulio Romanos designs, wereexpanded and developed into complete stories. Giulio Romanosdesigns pictured scenes from the second Punic War between theCarthaginians and the Romans (B. C. 218 to 202) in which PubliusCornelius Scipio, called Africanus because of his victories in Africa,won the empire of the world for the Romans. 27r>. RENAISSANCE TAPESTRIES By some delightful turn of Fortunes wheel, part of the finestset of Scipio tapestries with Avhich I am acquainted is now in NewYork, recently brought here from Madrid, where others of the setstill remain. The set is Early Renaissance in every detail of designand execution and all the tapestries of the set are luxuriantly richwith gold, inserted with mar\ellous skill in plain and basket andcouched weave, the last producing in the robes brocaded effects thatare incomparably magnificent. These tapestries are in every way equal to the greatest tapestriesof the period, the Acts of the Apostles sets at the Vatican and in theRoyal Sjianish collection; the Abraham sets at Hampton Court, in theIm
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