Download or read book European Post medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Edith Appleton Standen and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1985 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tapestry making flourished in the major centers of western Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Thousands of tapestries were woven as special commissions for church, crown, and nobility. This publication is a comprehensive catalogue of the Museum's collection of tapestries and allied works made after the Middle Ages.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Download or read book The Cinquantenaire Tapestries written by Guy Delmarcel and published by Exhibitions International. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalogue of the collection of Western tapestries of the Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels.

Download or read book Masterpieces of Tapestry from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century written by Geneviève Souchal and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1974 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present exhibition is one of a series of five worked out in the partnership [between the Metropolitan Museum and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux of France]. The others are: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which closed at the Louvre last month and is now on view here; Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Louvre, to be shown at the Metropolitan in October; Impressionism, which will include some forty-five of the greatest paintings in the style and will be seen at the Louvre in September and here in December; and finally, French Painting from David to Delacroix, which is planned to open in Paris in the winter of 1974, followed by showings at the Detroit Institute of Art in the spring of 1975 and the Metropolitan in the summer.Following its appearance at the Grand Palais in Paris, Masterpieces of Tapestry is presented in New York in association with and under the patronage of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and under the sponsorship of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller of New York City. Without the extraordinary aid of the two Endowments and the enlightened generosity of these two art-loving private patrons the exhibition simply would not have been possible here.

Download or read book A Catalog of the Tapestries in the Collection of Frank Gair Macomber written by Phyllis Ackerman and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tapestries of the Lowlands written by Heinrich Göbel and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tapestries written by George Leland Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Tapestries written by Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a catalogue of tapestries illustrating the history of tapestries in six countries.

Download or read book Tapestries Their Origin History and Renaissance written by George Leland Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book French Tapestry written by Roger-Armand Weigert and published by London : Faber and Faber. This book was released on 1962 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book City Art Museum Bulletin written by City Art Museum of St. Louis and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Unicorn Tapestries written by Cloisters (Museum) and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tapestry in the Baroque written by Thomas P. Campbell and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Retrospective Loan Exhibition of European Tapestries written by San Francisco Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tapestry in the Renaissance written by Thomas P. Campbell and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tapestries--the art form of kings--were a principal tool used by powerful Renaissance rulers to convey their wealth and might. From 1460 to 1560, courts and churches lavished vast sums on costly weavings in silk and gold thread from designs by leading artists. In this lavishly illustrated book, the first major survey of tapestry production of this period, contributors analyze some of these & beautiful tapestries, examine the stylistic and technical development of tapestry production in the Low Countries, France, and Italy during the Renaissance, and discuss the contribution that the medium made to art, liturgy, and propaganda of the day.

Download or read book Catalogue of Tapestries written by Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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