Tapestries from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: The History of Constantine the Great, designed by Peter Paul Rubens and Pietro da Cortona

Item #169013 Tapestries from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: The History of Constantine the Great, designed by Peter Paul Rubens and Pietro da Cortona. David Dubon.

Tapestries from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: The History of Constantine the Great, designed by Peter Paul Rubens and Pietro da Cortona

Dubon, David

[London]: Phaidon Press, 1964. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Blue and BW-illustrated dust jacket. 152 pp. 99 illustrations, including 5 tipped-in color plates. G/G. Dust jacket contains remants of sticker, edge wear. Edge wear to cloth covers. Book is ex-library with usual marks. Several pages contain a damp stain along the top edge that makes some pages stick together. SIGNED by author. Item #169013

"The famous tapestries depicting the History of Constantine the Great, designed by Rubens and Pietro da Cortona, have recently been presented by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. These superb tapestries, a series of thirteen panels, are of considerable importance in the history of tapestry weaving, the more so because of their high quality and good state of preservation." -- dj flap.