Renaissance splendor : Catherine de' Medici's Valois tapestries / Elizabeth Cleland and Marjorie E. Wieseman ; with contributions by Francesca de Luca, Alessandra Griffo, and Costanza Perrone Da Zara and Claudia Beyer.

• Directors' foreword / William M. Griswold and Eike D. Schmidt -- Preface / Elizabeth Cleland and Marjorie E. Wieseman -- Timeline -- Map of Europe showing the tapestries' travels -- Valois family tree -- Catherine de' Medici as patron and collector / Marjorie E. Wieseman -- The Valois tapestries -- Catherine de' Medici's Valois Tapestries / Elizabeth Cleland -- The Valois Tapestries : a conservation history / Francesca de Luca -- An illustrated conservation guide / Costanza Perrone Da Zara and Claudia Beyer -- The Florentine tapestry collection : from the Medici palaces to the new museum / Alessandra Griffo -- Catalogue of the exhibition.

• Featuring detailed scenes of court pageantry and life-size portraits of members of the French Valois dynasty woven in wool, silk, and precious metal-wrapped threads, the Valois Tapestries are one of the most extravagant sets of hangings produced in the 16th century. The precise circumstances surrounding the tapestries' commission and their arrival at the Medici court in Florence, as well as the significance of the specific scenes depicted, however, have eluded scholars for years. Presenting new research into the political maneuvering of the Valois and Medici courts and providing extensive physical analysis gathered during a recent cleaning of the tapestries, this volume offers brand new insight into why these magnificent works were made and what they represent.00Exhibition: Cleveland Museum of Art, USA (11.11.2018-27.01.2019). 

Ämnesord

Vävda tapeter  (sao)

Textilkonservering  (sao)

Tapestry, Flemish  -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Nobility  -- France -- Burgundy -- History -- To 1500 -- Portraits -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Art patronage.  (fast)

Nobility.  (fast)

Tapestry, Flemish.  (fast)

Tapestry  (LCSH)

Burgundy (France)  -- History -- House of Valois, 1363-1477 -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

France  -- Burgundy. (fast)

1500-talet  (sao)

1363-1500  (fast)

Genre

Exhibition catalogs.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Exhibition catalogs.  (lcgft)

Personnamn

Valois, familj

Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589 -- Art patronage -- Exhibitions.

Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589.

Katarina av Medici, drottning av Frankrike, 1519-1589

Medici, Catherina de.

Titel

Valois tapestries -- Exhibitions.

Valois tapestries.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ihca-gb Vävnader: Belgien

Klassifikation

DC111.3 (LCC)

NK3055.V3 (LCC)

944.025 (DDC)

Ihca-gb.41 (kssb/8)