“This tapestry is almost the antithesis of what one expects from a great sixteenth-century weaving.”
Curator Elizabeth Cleland on Hunters in a Landscape, a Flemish tapestry from the sixteenth century.
Contributors
Elizabeth Cleland
Associate Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Associate Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Photography by Joseph Coscia, Jr.
Art Mentioned
Designer Anonymous, 16th century
With elements after a design on a woodcut by Jost Amman
Woven by Anonymous Flemish weavers
ca. 1575–95
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