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Renaissance Splendor. Catherine de Medicis Valois Tapestries
Cleland, Elizabeth et al.: Renaissance Splendor. Catherine de' Medici's Valois Tapestries. Exhibition: Cleveland, Museum of Art, 2018. 96 pages, 72 colour illustrations. Hardback. 27x30cms. This volume focuses on these particularly extravagant 16th-century hangings, which depict detailed scenes of court pageantry and life-size portraits of members of the French Valois dynasty woven in wool, silk, and precious metal-wrapped threads. New research illuminates the previous uncertainty surrounding the tapestries' commission and their arrival at the Medici court in Florence, as well as the significance of the specific scenes to the politics and intrigues of the time.
This volume focuses on these particularly extravagant 16th-century hangings, which depict detailed scenes of court pageantry and life-size portraits of members of the French Valois dynasty woven in wool, silk, and precious metal-wrapped threads. New research illuminates the previous uncertainty surrounding the tapestries commission and their arrival at the Medici court in Florence, as well as the significance of the specific scenes to the politics and intrigues of the time.
