Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor

New York and New Haven, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2007. x, 563 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 17, 2007 to January 6, 2008; and at the Palacio Real, Madrid, March 6 to June 1, 2008. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Drawing from collections in more than fifteen countries, Tapestry in the Baroque presents forty-five rare tapestries made between 1590 and 1720. About half of these derive from Flemish workshops, including such highlights of the Brussels tapestry industry as the Triumphs of the Church designed by Rubens for Archduchess Isabella in 1626 and tapestries from the Austrian state collection designed by Jacob Jordaens and others in the 1630s and 1640s. Flemish weavers also played key roles elsewhere in Europe, establishing new enterprises and training native weavers, and the publication also features rare examples from these new workshops." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction: The Golden Age of Netherlandish tapestry weaving, by Thomas P. Campbell; The disruption and diaspora of the Netherlandish tapestry industry, 1570-1600, by Thomas P. Campbell; The development of new centers of production and the recovery of the Netherlandish tapestry industry, 1600-1620, by Thomas P. Campbell; Stately splendor, woven frescoes, luxury furnishings: tapestry in context, 1600-1660, by Thomas P. Campbell; The Parisian workshops, 1590-1650, by Isabelle Denis; The Mortlake Manufactory, 1619-49, by Wendy Hefford; Tapestry in the Spanish Netherlands, 1625-60, by Guy Delmarcel; Tapestry production in Florence: The Medici tapestry works, 1587-1747, by Lucia Meoni; Tapestry production in seventeenth-century Rome: The Barberini Manufactory, by James G. Harper; Collectors and connoisseurs: the status and perception of tapestry, 1600-1660, by Thomas P. Campbell; Tapestry production at the Gobelins during the reign of Louis XIV, 1661-1715, by Pascal-Francois Bertrand; Manufacture Royale de Tapisseries de Beauvais, 1664-1715, by Charissa Brewer-David; Flemish production, 1660-715, by Koenraad Brosens; Continuity and change in tapestry use and design, 1680-1720, by Thomas P. Campbell.. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.