Presentation of crowns. Giulio Romano (Italian, 1492/99-1546) (designed after) [painter] Mattens, Hendrick (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1600 Tapestry Dimensions: H 315 x W 340 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, T
Presentation of crowns. Giulio Romano (Italian, 1492/99-1546) (designed after) [painter] Mattens, Hendrick (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1600 Tapestry Dimensions: H 315 x W 340 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 Within architectural setting, Scipio enthroned, wearing laurel wreath, hands crown to kneeling soldier (center, foreground); 2 soldiers wear laurel wreaths stand next to throne (R, foreground); soldier with helmet & sword (L, foreground); 2 men approach scene from outside (center, middle ground); group of men with spears surround circular temple, city ruins (L, 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 left side of GCPA 0240142 is seen as an individual fragment (Dimitrova). Junquera de Vega, Catalogo de Tapices, Vol. I (1986), 193-205, series 28, no. 3 Paris (Grand Palais), Jules Romain (1978), 42-45 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0240140-0240145; another set in series (similar borders): GCPA 0240192-0240193
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