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This study focuses on the stylistic evolution of tapestry design in the Netherlands beginning with the development by Netherlandish designers in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries of an aesthetic that emphasized narrative and decorative qualities. During the 1510s, 1520s, and 1530s, commissions by Pope Leo X and other Italian patrons resulted in the dispatch of tapestry cartoons by Italian artists―notably Raphael and his assistants―to Brussels, the main center of high-quality production, thus introducing Roman High Renaissance aesthetics to Northern tapestry design. Thereafter, Netherlandish artists like Bernaert van Orley and his followers melded this Italian influence with their local traditions of tapestry design to produce a rich aesthetic that was ideally suited to the medium. Smaller centers of tapestry production are also examined―particularly those set up under princely patronage in France (Fontainebleau) and Italy (Ferrara, Mantua, and Florence). Unrestrained by established practices of Netherlandish production, such artists as Tura, Mantegna, Bramantino, Bronzino, and Salviati invariably created tapestry designs that were much closer to the spirit of the Ita
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- Author
- Thomas P. Campbell; with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth ... [et al.]; photography by Bruce White
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press [distributor
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781588390219
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, History, Arts
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