Calling of Ezekiel: Ezekiel's visions. Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520) (school, designed after) [painter] c. 1530-1550 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'4" x W 11'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Marcheses Camillo Casati coll., Rome.; sold to Mrs. Ladenberg. French & Co. purchased from Mrs. Preston Davis (E. M. Ladenberg crossed out) 2/26/1926. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border cartouche: EGO SVM QVI SVM /.. In sky, Ezekiel's vision of God sitting on his throne made up of 4 tetramorphs (=symbols of 4 evangelists, 'apocalyptic b
Calling of Ezekiel: Ezekiel's visions. Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520) (school, designed after) [painter] c. 1530-1550 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'4" x W 11'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Marcheses Camillo Casati coll., Rome.; sold to Mrs. Ladenberg. French & Co. purchased from Mrs. Preston Davis (E. M. Ladenberg crossed out) 2/26/1926. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border cartouche: EGO SVM QVI SVM /.. In sky, Ezekiel's vision of God sitting on his throne made up of 4 tetramorphs (=symbols of 4 evangelists, 'apocalyptic beasts') (Ezekiel 1-3) (BRD) bunches of oversize flowers & fruit interspersed with birds, against central palm tree trunk motif; (UPR BRD) cartouche with inscription The 16th-century cartoon on which this tapestry is based is now in the Buccleuch collection, Boughton House, England. This tapestry may possibly be a cut-down, 17th-century weaving of the earlier design, set within a 16th-century border, Alternatively, this central field may be even later, possibly a late 19th-/early 20th-century fake, or at least very extensive reweaving (Campbell). Based on a painting by the school of Raphael in the Palazzo Pitti (unknown attributor's notes). French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 14118
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