Tapestries, their origin, history and renaissance (1912)
Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · New York, John Lane company; · leaf 82
of this set are framed in squareGothic columns with flat slightly rounded archesabove, and a four-line French caption in Gothicletters below. The long frieze, 4 feet 11 by 97 feet 6, in theCathedral of Le Mans, picturing from the Story ofSaint Gervais and Saint Protais the same scenes asthe… … 74 TAPESTRIES—THEIR ORIGIN Especially interesting to my English readers isthe splendidly preserved Life of Christ, in 14 piecesand 27 scenes, at the Cathedral of Aix-en-Province,because in it are woven the coats of arms of threearchbishops of Canterbury—on the piece containingscenes nos. 23, 24 the…
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