Meeting of Dante and Virgil. Salviati, Francesco (Italian, 1510-1563) (author of design, cartoon creator) [painter] Straet, Jan van der (Netherlandish, 1523-1605) (cartoon creator, attr.) [painter] Rost, Jan (Flemish, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1547-1549 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (undyed, warp: 7-9/cm); wool & silk (weft: 26-44/cm) Culture: Italian Weaving Center: , TuscanyFlorence Ownership History: Probably Alamanno Salviati, Florence; Jacopo di Alamanno Salviati (Florence) 1557. duchess of Zagarolo (Rome) 1934. J. Pierpont Morga
Meeting of Dante and Virgil. Salviati, Francesco (Italian, 1510-1563) (author of design, cartoon creator) [painter] Straet, Jan van der (Netherlandish, 1523-1605) (cartoon creator, attr.) [painter] Rost, Jan (Flemish, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1547-1549 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (undyed, warp: 7-9/cm); wool & silk (weft: 26-44/cm) Culture: Italian Weaving Center: , TuscanyFlorence Ownership History: Probably Alamanno Salviati, Florence; Jacopo di Alamanno Salviati (Florence) 1557. duchess of Zagarolo (Rome) 1934. J. Pierpont Morgan, New York. Purchased as a gift for the MIA by Mrs. Charles J. Martin, 1915. French & Co. sold on 2/24/1916 [note on photograph]. United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, accno. Inscriptions: Weaver mark on lower guard, left (roast on apit) Inscriptions: City mark on lower guard, right: F [Florentine giglio] F Dante, wearing pink robe & laurel wreath, walks out of thick forest (L) preceded by she-wolf, leopard & lion, all looking back towards him, ; Dante looks up at Virgil, in violet & light blue robe & also wearing laurel wreath; spring flowing into rectangular basin behind Virgil, & settlement in background (INNER BRD) deeply carved trompe l'oeil recess; (BRD) grotesque ornament; (UPR BRD) centered by Salviati coat of arms; (L, R & LWR BRD) centered by sibyls or prophetesses with scrolls; vignette cartouches in corners with prophets, philosophers or classical authors with books French & Co. stock sheet missing from archive, 9779 [or 9780] French & Co. stock sheet missing from archive, 3833-a Adelson, European Tapestry (1994), 384-394, cat. 24
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