Fame. Orley, Bernart van (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Gossaert, Jan (Netherlandish (before 1600) - North Netherlands, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Aelst, Pieter van (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1520-1523 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk (weft); metallic thread (gold, weft); metallic thread (silver, weft) Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Charles V coll., Seville. Spain, Segovia, Segovia, Palacio
Fame. Orley, Bernart van (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Gossaert, Jan (Netherlandish (before 1600) - North Netherlands, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Aelst, Pieter van (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1520-1523 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk (weft); metallic thread (gold, weft); metallic thread (silver, weft) Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Charles V coll., Seville. Spain, Segovia, Segovia, Palacio de San Ildefonso, accno. A. 308-9966 (or, PN. S. 8/3). Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border, left banderole: ARDUA PEGASEO PERSEUS AD FACTA VOLATU/ACCELERANS VIVAX NOMEN IN ASTRA TULIT Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border, center banderole: FAMA VEL EFFRACTIS REVOCAT QUOSCUMQUE SEPULCHRIS/HINC LAUDES ILINC PROBA CAVENTE TUBA Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border, right banderole: MENDAX FAMA VIROS URBES PALLACIA REGES/TERRITAT HORRENDI NU[N]CIA PROMPTA MALI Fame seated on elephant blows 2 trumpets in front of palace (center), famous authors overlook from the palace's balconies (Petrarch, Pliny, Cato, Cicero, Ovid, Homer), historical & biblical figures gather before palace, some on horseback D(lexander the Great, Julius Caesar, David), others on foot (foreground); Perseus rides Pegasus (L, upper corner); Bad Repute (Mala Fama) holds thunderbolts while floating over sea waters (R, upper corner) (BRD) garlands of flowers & fruit interspersed with vessels For complete transcription of the inscriptions, see the Junquera de Vega catalog. This panel belong to a set of 9 tapestries, entitled "Los Honores", whose execution may have been motivated by the election of Emperor Charles V of Spain in 1519, resulting in his coronation in the Palatine Chapel in Aachen on October 23, 1520. Delmarcel, Los Honores (2000), 103-113, no. 6 New York (Met), Resplendence (1991), 27-39 Junq
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