The invention of glory
Subtitle: Afonso V and the Pastrana tapestries
By: [texts, Miguel Angel de Bunes Ibarra ... et al. ; translation, Philip Sutton]
Contributors: Fundación Carlos de Amberes; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Meadows Museum
Publisher: Fundación Carlos de Amberes; Ediciones El Viso; Fundacion Carlos De Amberes
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Madrid
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9788487369698; 9788495241849
Subjects: Art collections; Conservation and restoration; Exhibitions; Flemish Tapestry; Pastrana tapestries; Colegiata de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (Pastrana, Spain); Tapestry; Art patronage
Other titles: Afonso V and the Pastrana tapestries
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Sept. 18, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012, and at the Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Feb. 5-May 13, 2012; previously shown at 5 European venues.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-101).
Table of contents: title: The Pastrana tapestries, war photojournalism of the fifteenth century / Miguel Ángel Aguilar; title: The Pastrana tapestries and Portuguese expansion in North Africa /  Miguel Ángel de Bunes Ibarra; title: Afonso "the African" and his army : the Pastrana tapestries as a visual encyclopedia for the study of arms and armor / Donald J. La Rocca; title: The Pastrana tapestries and the Panels of St Vincent : artistic legacy and symbolic memory of the reign of Afonso V of Portugal /  Dalila Rodrigues; title: Landing at Ashilah; title: Seige of Asilah; title: Assault on Asilah; title: Fall of Tangier; title: The conservation of the tapestries at the collegiate church of Pastrana / Yvan Maes De Wit.