Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence
New York, NY; New Haven, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "Tapestries were a principal aspect of the ostentatious "magnificence" used during the Renaissance by powerful religious and secular rulers to broadcast their wealth and their might. This sumptuously illustrated book presents the first major survey of tapestry production between 1460 and 1560, and it catalogues the first monographic loan exhibition of tapestries in..... More
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