Tapestries, their origin, history and renaissance (1912)
Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · New York, John Lane company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 406
woven into the lowerborder: Actu(m) a(o) 1485 (made in the year 1485).It also resembles several in the Royal SpanishCollection that were woven near the end of the XVcentury. One of them, no. 7 in Valencias port-folio, shows—but larger in proportion—similar nudefigures of Adam and Eve. Interesting… … 386 TAPESTRIES—THEIR ORIGIN Technically this Mazarin tapestry is finer thanany other at the Metropolitan Museum. It repre-sents the best that can be done with gold and silverand silk and wool, to picture many figures elaboratelygowned, with flesh and hair that are marvellous intexture and tone. The…
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