[PDF] Medieval Tapestries In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art eBook

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Tapestry
ISBN : 0870996444

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A study of the condition, subject, design, manufacture, ownership, and exhibitions for each tapestry or set of tapestries in the Museum's medieval tapestry collection. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Author : Adolph S. Cavallo
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art and mythology
ISBN : 0870998684

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Among the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is a set of tapestries depicting the hunt of the fabled unicorn. Each of the seven exquisite tapestries is reproduced in large colorplates and with a wealth of color details. Created in the Netherlands in 1495-1505, they contain supremely memorable images - from the vulnerable unicorn and the individualized faces of the hunters to the naturalistically depicted flora and fauna. The author also looks at the construction of the tapestries and the historical and cultural context in which they were woven.

Author : Edith Appleton Standen
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Tapestry
ISBN : 0870994069

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Tapestry making flourished in the major centers of western Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Thousands of tapestries were woven as special commissions for church, crown, and nobility. This publication is a comprehensive catalogue of the Museum's collection of tapestries and allied works made after the Middle Ages.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Author : Thomas P. Campbell
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Tapestry, Renaissance
ISBN : 1588390225

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Tapestries--the art form of kings--were a principal tool used by powerful Renaissance rulers to convey their wealth and might. From 1460 to 1560, courts and churches lavished vast sums on costly weavings in silk and gold thread from designs by leading artists. In this lavishly illustrated book, the first major survey of tapestry production of this period, contributors analyze some of these & beautiful tapestries, examine the stylistic and technical development of tapestry production in the Low Countries, France, and Italy during the Renaissance, and discuss the contribution that the medium made to art, liturgy, and propaganda of the day.

Author : Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588397130

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This Bulletin examines the fascinating stories behind the only known sets of unicorn tapestries in the world—one at The Met Cloisters and another at the Musée de Cluny, Paris. The thirteen tapestries that compose the two sets—six at the Cluny and seven at The Met—remain shrouded in mystery, with their origins and original owners still unknown. Considering the iconography of these two collections together and drawing from primary sources, this Bulletin aims to reach a better understanding of these masterworks and their mythical subject that has captured the public imagination for centuries.

Author : Bonnie Young
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : 0870992031

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An illustrated tour of The Cloisters, presenting hidden treasures and details of the collection that might be missed by the casual visitor.

Author : Cloisters (Museum)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture, Medieval
ISBN : 1588391760

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"By surveying these elaborate tapestries, delicate carvings, and other objects in roughly the historical sequence in which they were created, we glimpse the evolving styles and artistic traditions of the Middle Ages and gain a more meaningful understanding of the contexts in which many of them appeared. Among the masterpieces on display at The Cloisters are the famed Unicorn Tapestries, the richly carved twelfth-century ivory cross associated with the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, known as the "Cloisters Cross," the exquisite Annuciation triptych by the Netherlandish painter Robert Campin, and many fine examples of manuscript illumination, enameling, metalwork, and stained glass." "Complete with digital color photography, map, floor plan, and glossary, this book is a contemporary guide that will reward students and enthusiasts of the Middle Ages as well as visitors seeing the Museum for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.