Tapestry in the Baroque
Subtitle: new aspects of production and patronage
By: edited by Thomas P. Campbell and Elizabeth A.H. Cleland
Series: The Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia; Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York; New Haven; Yale University Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781588393975; 9780300155143
Subjects: Baroque Tapestry; Congresses; Tapestry; History
Description: The exhibition "Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor," which opened at the Metropolitan Museum in 2007, was the occasion for a symposium at which renowned tapestry scholars presented results of some of their important, highly detailed research. This volume publishes the papers in well-illustrated articles.

The introductory article tours the exhibition, setting out its organization over the course of the period 1590 through the early 1700s, which saw the scattering of Flemish weavers around Europe during years of religious turmoil and the resulting development of the tapestry industry in such centers as Delft, Helsing&ør, Munich, London (Mortlake), Paris, and Rome, and then the industry's revival in Brussels. In their articles, the contributors concentrate on specific individuals in tapestry design, production, and collecting. They distill the results of laborious digging through family and crown inventories, parish records, notarial accounts, and other archival resources, as well as close examination of historical reports, to put forward new assessments of the accomplishments of tapestry designers and producers and a better understanding of the reasons wealthy patrons collected and displayed tapestries and presented them as gifts.

A number of the articles include appendixes with transcriptions of archival material. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Papers presented at the symposium held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 20-21, 2007, in conjunction with the exhibition "Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor" held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 17, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to the exhibition / Thomas P. Campbell; title: Tapestry production. New light on the Raes workshop in Brussels and Rubens's Achilles series / Koenraad Brosens; title: A new look at the Story of Coriolanus / Isabelle Denis; title: Charles de Comans's post-mortem inventory, 1635 / Jean Vittet; title: A question of scale: was it necessary to weave Poussin's paintings? / Pascal-François Bertrand; title: Patronage. Tales from the tapestry collection of Elector Palatine Frederick V and Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter King and Queen / Hanns Hubach; title: Mannerist, baroque, and classicist: narrative tapestries and related paintings in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holland / Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis; title: On the tapestries in seventeenth-century Milan: some new findings / Nello Forti Grazzini; title: An altar frontal for the Jesuit church in Rome after an unknown design by Rubens / Ingrid De Meûter; title: The sun also riseth: the Barberini Apollo series as an allegory of rise, fall, and return / James G. Harper; title: Tapestries in the Colonna collection / Florence Patrizi; title: Tapestries for court and ecclesiastical use in seventeenth-century Spain / Concha Herrero Carretero; title: Spanish family pride in Flemish wool and silk: the Moncada family and its baroque tapestry collection / Guy Delmarcel, Margarita García Calvo, and Koenraad Brosens; title: The tapestry patronage of Madame de Montespan and her family / Charissa Bremer-David; title: Tapestry as a medium of propaganda at the court of Louis XIV: display and audience; title: / Florian Knothe.