Dialectica. Schut, Cornelis I (Flemish, act. 1597-1655) (author of design) [painter] Janssens, Carlos (Flemish, 1650-1675) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1660-1680 Tapestry Dimensions: H 376 x W 427 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Bruges Ownership History: French & Co. Belgium, West Flanders, Bruges, Musées communaux, accno. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border cartouche: MATER / ARTIUM / DONUM / INVENTUM / QVE / DEORUM Inscriptions: Inscription in lower border on banderole: CLAVIS SCIENTIARVM Inscriptions: Inscriptions in lower border
Dialectica. Schut, Cornelis I (Flemish, act. 1597-1655) (author of design) [painter] Janssens, Carlos (Flemish, 1650-1675) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1660-1680 Tapestry Dimensions: H 376 x W 427 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Bruges Ownership History: French & Co. Belgium, West Flanders, Bruges, Musées communaux, accno. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border cartouche: MATER / ARTIUM / DONUM / INVENTUM / QVE / DEORUM Inscriptions: Inscription in lower border on banderole: CLAVIS SCIENTIARVM Inscriptions: Inscriptions in lower border on book spines: ARISTOTELES, PLUTARCHUS, PLATO In architectural setting, seated Dialectica, bare-breasted & with crescent moon on head, reasons with elderly Plato (?) (center); seated at her feet, belaurelled Socrates (?) listening & writing (L); 2 attending cherubim (R foreground); Aristotle statue (L background) (BRD) strapwork & scrolling moldings; (UPR BRD) central cartouche with inscription flanked by pairs of putti & ribbon-tied festoons; (LWR BRD) 2 putti with inscribed books hold banderole with inscription suspending ribbon-tied key in center; flanked by ribbon-tied festoons; (L & R BRD) large vases with flowers & bunches of ribbon-tied fruits & foliage, & putti in corners There are numerous editions of this set featuring 3 different types of borders (naturalist borders, borders of cartouches & scrollwork, borders with spiral (Solomonic) columns). This set comprises 9 panels; only 2 are represented in the Photo Study Collection. The set has been split among several collections (see related works). No French & Co. stock sheet in archive, no stock number Delmarcel, Bruges et la tapisserie (1987), 464-466, fig. 66/1 Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry (1999), 301, fig. Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0237011-0237012; Bruges, Musées Communaux, Ref. , "Astrologia"; Milan, Civiche raccolte d'arte applicata, "Rhetorica"; Lausanne, Canton de Vaud, Coll. Tom, "The
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