Grotesqueries: Renaissance and Baroque Tapestries
New York, NY: Richard L. Feigen & Co., 2015. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps, French flaps, 88 pp., color and BW illus. VG. Item #150470
Issued in conjunction with a 2015 exhibition of 7 examples of these tapestries. "Grotesque tapestries emerged out of the discovery of Roman frescoes in the late 1400s. Raphael and his collaborators were employed to adapt what they had seen for the decoration of the Vatican Loggias. Pope Leo X commissioned the first complete room of grotesque tapestries before 1520. Europe's kings and rulers swifly followed and this fascination with the grotesque continued into and through the seventeenth century." (foreword) With an introductory essay, and a well-annotated and illustrated catalogue of all 7 tapestries.
OCLC: 907804047
Price: $20.00