Tapestry . ive art by Pope Clement XL, in 1702, which gave rise tothe manufactory of the Hospice St. Michel. This hospice isdevoted to the reception of orphan children, and a particularclass of criminals are also confined there. Clement XI. foundedthere a vast industrial establishment in which these inmateswere taught, besides tapestry, different artistic handicrafts, suchas chasing and engraving on wood, and the engraving of cameosand medals. This manufactory executed several hangings frompaintings by Carlo Maratti and other Roman painters of the17th and 18th centuries, and from the compositi
Tapestry . ive art by Pope Clement XL, in 1702, which gave rise tothe manufactory of the Hospice St. Michel. This hospice isdevoted to the reception of orphan children, and a particularclass of criminals are also confined there. Clement XI. foundedthere a vast industrial establishment in which these inmateswere taught, besides tapestry, different artistic handicrafts, suchas chasing and engraving on wood, and the engraving of cameosand medals. This manufactory executed several hangings frompaintings by Carlo Maratti and other Roman painters of the17th and 18th centuries, and from the compositions of Domeni-chino. But the execution of these large pieces was generallythe exception, and the manufacture was usually confined tothe reproduction of heads of the Virgin, after Guido, and theapostles St. Peter and St. Paul. This manufactory was closed when the Pope was carried offby the French under the first Empire, and it was not until 1830that it was revived, on the model of the Gobelins manufactory. m. 5 o TAPESTRY. 47 After the entry of the Piedmontese into Rome in 1870, it wasdivided, part of the workmen remaining at the Vatican, and therest being supported by the Italian government. These variousvicissitudes have necessarily had an unfavourable influence on theindustrial activity and prosperity of this manufacture. Thepalaces of the Vatican and the Quirinal preserve some hangingsmade in its looms. Manufactories at We do not know at wnat period the first loomsMadnd- were set up in Spain, although we are certain that they were in active operation in the Middle Ages. In the reign ofPhilip IV. there existed a royal manufactory at Madrid, for whichthe painter Rubens was commissioned to execute a series of eightgrand cartoons. The tapestries reproducing these cartoonsdecorated, later on, the convent of Loeches, near the capital. Amasterpiece of Velasquez, preserved in the Royal museum atMadrid, represents the interior of an atelier in this is known by the name
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