Renaissance splendor : Catherine de' Medici's Valois tapestries / Elizabeth Cleland and Marjorie E. Wieseman ; with contributions by Francesca de Luca, Alessandra Griffo, and Costanza Perrone Da Zara and Claudia Beyer.

Featuring 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, the Valois Tapestries are one of the most extravagant sets of hangings produced in the 16th century. The precise circumstances surroun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cleland, Elizabeth A. H. (Author)
Wieseman, Marjorie E. (Author)
Corporate Author: Cleveland Museum of Art (Issuing body, Host institution)
Other Authors: De Luca, Francesca (Writer of added text)
Griffo, Alessandra (Writer of added text)
Perrone Da Zara, Costanza (Writer of added text)
Beyer, Claudia, 1988- (Writer of added text)
Griswold, William (writer of foreword.)
Schmidt, Eike D. (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, [2018]
Subjects:
Catherine de Médicis, > Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, > 1519-1589 > Art patronage > Exhibitions.
Valois tapestries > Exhibitions.
Tapestry, Flemish > Exhibitions.
Nobility > France > Burgundy > History > To 1500 > Portraits > Exhibitions.
Burgundy (France) > History > House of Valois, 1363-1477 > Exhibitions.
Medici, Catherina de.
Catherine de Médicis, > Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, > 1519-1589.
Valois tapestries.
Art patronage.
Nobility.
Tapestry, Flemish.
France > Burgundy.
Crafts.
1363-1500
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Portraits
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Physical Description:94 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits, genealogical table ; 29 x 31 cm
Variant Title:
Catherine de' Medici's Valois tapestries
Format: Book

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