Tapestries: Their Origin, History & Renaissance
- Author(s): John Lane Company
- Category: Textiles, Clothing & Accessories
- Publisher: John Lane Company
- Publish year: 1912
- ISBN: 9678000019103
- Number of Pages: 451
This is the moat perfect Beauvais-Boucher tapestry I have ever seen, and the illustration is singularly fortunate in sugges~ ing-though not in reproducing-the exquisite tones of the original. It is 10 feet, 2 by 8 feet 6, comes from the Casimir-P~rier collection, having been acquired about 80 years ago by the grandfather of the late President of France, was designed by Fran,;oili Boucher, whose reveraed signature (F. Boucher 1757) appears on the edge of the marble table, and was woven at Beauvais by A. C. Charron, who in 1753 became manager of the works on the death of Nicolas Bes11ier. It is valued at $120,000 and was in America only just long enough last winter for me to have the colour plates made.
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COVER
PREFACE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I - THE REANISSANCE OF TAPESTRIES
CHAPTER II - GOTHIC TAPESTRIES
CHAPTER III - RENAISSANCE TAPESTRIES
CHAPTER IV - FLEMISH AND BURGUNDIAN LOOMS
CHAPTER V - MORTLAKE, MERTON, AND OTHER ENGLISH LOOMS
CHAPTER VI - FRENCH LOOMS
CHAPTER VII - OTHER LOOMS
CHAPTER VIII - THE TEXTURE OF TAPESTRIES
CHAPTER IX - DESIGNS AND CARTOONS
CHAPTER X - TAPESTRY SIGNATURES AND MAKERS
CHAPTER XI - THE BIBLE IN TAPESTRIES
CHAPTER XII - HISTORY AND ROMANCE IN TAPESTRIES
CHAPTER XIII - THE TAPESTRY POINT OF VIEW
CHAPTER XIV - THE CARE OF TAPESTRIES
CHAPTER XV - TAPESTRY MUSEUMS, COLLECTIONS, EXPOSITIONS,INVENTORIES, SALES, BOOKS
CHAPTER XVI - TAPESTRIES AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
GENERAL INDEX
INDEX