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Tapestry in the Baroque: New Aspects of Production and Patronage

Campbell, Thomas P., and Elizabeth A. H. Cleland, eds., with contributions by Koenraad Brosens, Isabelle Denis, Jean Vittet, Pascal-François Bertrand, Hans Hubach, Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis, Nello Forti Grazzini, Ingrid De Meûter, James G. Harper, Florence Patrizi, Concha Herrero Carretero, Guy Delmarcel, Margarita García Calvo, Charissa Bremer-David, and Florian Knothe (2010)

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Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor

From the Middle Ages until the late eighteenth century, the courts of Europe lavished vast resources on tapestries made of precious materials after designs by leading artists. This international loan exhibition, conceived as a sequel to Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence (spring 2002), is the first comprehensive survey of high-quality tapestry production in the Baroque era. Drawing from twenty-five collections around the world, it presents forty-five rare tapestries woven in a variety of centers, demonstrating the stylistic development of the medium between 1570 and 1720. Almost all of the tapestries presented derive from larger sets made for the kings, popes, and leading members of the European nobility. This assemblage provides a unique glimpse of the contribution that the medium of tapestry made to the art and propaganda of the principal courts of the day.