Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . s that of the best periodof the Flemish and Dutch schools of painting, whichwere noted for extraordinary care in minutely depictingdetail. In a way we may trace a similar scrupulousness * Theodore Biais, Gazette des Beaux Arts, August 1874. 124 I. EMBROIDERY. of execution in Flemish embroideries of this period, forwhich a fair justification can be pleaded from thematerials so used being under more restraint than those of thepainters. Many or
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . s that of the best periodof the Flemish and Dutch schools of painting, whichwere noted for extraordinary care in minutely depictingdetail. In a way we may trace a similar scrupulousness * Theodore Biais, Gazette des Beaux Arts, August 1874. 124 I. EMBROIDERY. of execution in Flemish embroideries of this period, forwhich a fair justification can be pleaded from thematerials so used being under more restraint than those of thepainters. Many orphreysand chasublecrosses vie withpainted panels ofFlemish trip-tychs. Oneselected as anillustration of this(fig. 55) is typicalof the finestwork of its design is asixteenth-centuryversion of theJesse Tree David witha long beard isin the centre; andthe character of allthe figures isforcibly qualityof Flemish em-broidery is to be seen in an altar frontal, metreslong and wide, exhibited in the Royal Museum ofAntiquities and Armour of the Porte de la Hal atBrussels. It comes from the abbey of Grimbergen,. Fig- 55-—Cross or orphrey from a Flemishchasuble (in the Hochon collection). SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO DEATH OF LOUIS XIV. 125 and bears the arms of Christopher Outers, prior, from1615 to 1647.* An inscription, Pants confortans Christus, indicates
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