The Lost Tapestries of the City of Ladies
Subtitle: Christine de Pizan's Renaissance Legacy
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780520234109
Subjects: Tapestries & hangings; Tapestry, Renaissance; Criticism; ca. 1364-ca. 1431.; Art & Art Instruction; de Pisan,; Art; ca. 1364-ca. 1431; Women in art; History - Renaissance; Art / General; Christine,; Women's Studies - General; Livre de la cite des dames
Description: 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.