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Woven Gold - Tapestries of Louis XIV
Charissa Bremer-David
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Description for Woven Gold - Tapestries of Louis XIV
Hardback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; 3JF; ACQ; AFWH; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Meticulously woven by hand with wool, silk, and gilt-metal thread, the tapestry collection of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, represents the highest achievements of the art form. Intended to enhance the king's reputation by visualizing his manifest glory and to promote the kingdom's nascent mercantile economy, the royal collection of tapestries included antique and contemporary sets that followed the designs of the greatest artists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including Raphael, Giulio Romano, Rubens, Vouet, and Le Brun. Ranging in date from about 1540 to 1715 and coming from weaving workshops across northern Europe, these remarkable works ... Read more
Meticulously woven by hand with wool, silk, and gilt-metal thread, the tapestry collection of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, represents the highest achievements of the art form. Intended to enhance the king's reputation by visualizing his manifest glory and to promote the kingdom's nascent mercantile economy, the royal collection of tapestries included antique and contemporary sets that followed the designs of the greatest artists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including Raphael, Giulio Romano, Rubens, Vouet, and Le Brun. Ranging in date from about 1540 to 1715 and coming from weaving workshops across northern Europe, these remarkable works ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
136
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1729g
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781606064610
SKU
V9781606064610
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About Charissa Bremer-David
Charissa Bremer-David is curator in the Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She is author of French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Publications, 1997) and has published extensively on French tapestries.
Reviews for Woven Gold - Tapestries of Louis XIV
Clear, distinct, and lucid in the extreme, Woven Gold is positively Cartesian. . . . The reproductions of the exhibited tapestries, their accompanying images and superb selection of details
even the woven gold cloth of the hard cover, makes for a beautiful book, as well as a great Franco-American collaborative achievement.
Burlington Magazine Lavishly illustrated, the volume presents for the ... Read more
even the woven gold cloth of the hard cover, makes for a beautiful book, as well as a great Franco-American collaborative achievement.
Burlington Magazine Lavishly illustrated, the volume presents for the ... Read more