La Tapisserie Flamande du XVth au XVIIIth Siecle
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1999. Hardcover. Blue library buckram with white spine lettering. 384 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. VG, sticker remnants to spine at head and tail; small permanent marker marks at head and tail to ffep. Item #29327
ISBN: 9782743303372
Text in French. Flemish tapestries of the 15th to 18th centuries. Includes an introduction and 4 main sections: The Middle Ages - Burgundian period, primitives of Flanders and Brussels, French style; The Renaissance - Flemish and Renaissance Italian tapestries, the Habsburgs and the art of the tapestry, production at Brussels and commerce at Anvers, Flemish Golden Age in the tapestries of Brussels, the Renaissance outside of Brussels (Tournai, Enchien, Anvers, Bruges, Audenarde); The Baroque - Emigration, Brussels ateliers, tapestries made in the manner of the masters of Anvers and Brussels, tapestries of the cities named in the Renaissance section; Epilogue (Brussels Tapestries of the 18th C.). With appendices of makers' marks, bibliography and index. Beautiful book with excellent color reproductions of the tapestries. The pages on which the color illus. appear have faint background textile motifs. Stunning and full of wonderful information for anyone interested in European tapestries, Flemish/Belgian in particular.
Price: $70.00