The lost tapestries of the City of ladies : Christine de Pizan's Renaissance legacy / [electronic resource]
Bell, Susan G.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
2004.
The story of the author's search for a series of sixteenth-century tapestries that celebrated women, perhaps linked to Christine de Pisan's (Pizan's) Book of the City of Ladies, originally published in 1405.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The first clue -- Christine de Pizan -- Queen Elizabeth's tapestries -- Tapestry production in the early Renaissance -- Margaret of Austria and the Tournai tapestries -- Anne of Brittany's "Cité des Dames" -- An eight-panel French set -- The "Cietie of Dammys" in Scotland -- The "Citie of Ladies" at the English court -- Christine de Pizan's legacy to the Renaissance.
The story of the author's search for a series of sixteenth-century tapestries that celebrated women, perhaps linked to Christine de Pisan's (Pizan's) Book of the City of Ladies, originally published in 1405.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on print version record.
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431.
Tapestry, Renaissance.
Women in art.
Tapestry, Renaissance
Women in art
Visual Arts
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts
Decorative Arts