The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 77
he Arras tapestries became so general that the most 46 TAPESTRY. handsome hangings were called Arras tapestry, although the greater part ofthem did not come from that city. It may here be noticed that the termArrazi is, in Italy, still synonymous with valuable tapestry (Fig. 29). These fabrics were… … Fig. 2Q.—Marriage of Louis XII. and Anne of Brittany. Tapestry in wool and silk, with a mixture of gold andsilver thread. Made in Flanders the end of the Fifteenth Century. (Lent by M. Achille Jubinal.) An inventory, dated 21st January, 1379, contained in a manuscriptnow in the Bibliothèque…
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