. 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. Ilatf \11-()LK 1,AJ)V OK eiii-ly Renaissance tapestry in the Brussels .Musciiii. Plate VIII—THE DOLLFUS CRUCIFIXION All earl) Itenaissanee tapestry rich with jrold, desiirned by Bernard van Orley, and Miiw owned liv Mr. Wiclener 278 RENAISSANCE TAPESTRIES can be seen at the Louvre. These drawings average in
. 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. Ilatf \11-()LK 1,AJ)V OK eiii-ly Renaissance tapestry in the Brussels .Musciiii. Plate VIII—THE DOLLFUS CRUCIFIXION All earl) Itenaissanee tapestry rich with jrold, desiirned by Bernard van Orley, and Miiw owned liv Mr. Wiclener 278 RENAISSANCE TAPESTRIES can be seen at the Louvre. These drawings average in size 17 incheshigh by 22 inches wide. Nine of them iUustrate nine scenes of theTriumph of Scipio mentioned above; the other six, six of the Deedsof Scipio. They were formerly in tlie collection of Everhard Jal)ach,from wliom they were purchased for Louis XIV by Lebrun. Of the full-size cartoons in coloin- (grands patrons) there is onein the Louvre 11 feet 7 inches high by 21 feet 2 inches wide, repro-ducing scene number two of the Triumph of Scipio. This is one offour cartoons presented to Louis XVI in 178G by the English painter,Richard Cosway, who bought them in Venice, where they had beentaken in 1630 when the palace of the I^uke of INIantua was pillagedby the Imperial troops. Another famous set of Early Renaissance tapestries, also prob-ably after the des
Size: 1586px × 1575px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectlaceandlacemaking
