Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . Plate XIII—MARSYAS FLAYED BY APOLLO Plate XIV—THE CREATION OF EVE Renaissance tapestry in the Royal Spanish collection Renaissance tapestry in the Tapestry Gallery at Florence 281. X cS pq ?H V O = A rn 1— U ctf V. C OJ a PS -= Q U3 H < E 9 1 (^ * V +J Bl X RENAISSANCE TAPESTRIES designs. The fact is that Bernard va
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . Plate XIII—MARSYAS FLAYED BY APOLLO Plate XIV—THE CREATION OF EVE Renaissance tapestry in the Royal Spanish collection Renaissance tapestry in the Tapestry Gallery at Florence 281. X cS pq ?H V O = A rn 1— U ctf V. C OJ a PS -= Q U3 H < E 9 1 (^ * V +J Bl X RENAISSANCE TAPESTRIES designs. The fact is that Bernard van Orley, living in Brusselsas he did, thoroughly understood tapestry texture, and all of histapestries, even those that are most Italian, are full of the rich effectsinherited from Gothic tapestries. It is interesting to note that theHunts took place in the vicinity of Brussels, and that the Maximiliannamed was the Emperor Maximilian who was the grandfather ofCharles V. TAPESTRY SIGNATURES The signatures of Renaissance tapestries are exceedingly interest-ing. Gothic tapestries were seldom signed. In the second quarter ofthe sixteenth century the habit of signing tapestries became , in the year 1528, the practice was confirmed legally by theEmperor Charles V for Brussels, and in 1544 for the rest of theNetherlands. During the sixteenth century Brussels tapestries weresigned with the Brussels mark, two capital Bs in yellow on each s
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