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Tapestries

Mercedes Viale Ferrero

出版	Hamlyn, 1969
主題	Art / Design / Decorative
ISBN	06000122639780600012269
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7txNAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The art of tapestry has perhaps never reached greater heights than it did in the Middle Ages, when a unique combination of aesthetic sensibility and technical skill was achieved by hundreds of weavers working in France, Flanders, Switzerland and Germany. Weaving was certainly a boom industry with tapestries used as much for practical purposes as for decoration. \No era has been more delightfully portrayed that was the Medieval period by these elegant scenes of chivalrous knights either on the battlefield or pledging eternal love in flowery glades. During the Renaissance, painters like Raphael and Bronzino invaded the world of tapestry design bringing with them concepts of space and perspective which were unfortunately not always suited to the technique of weaving. Rubens, Jordaens and Boucher were also among the many illustrious painters who have designed tapestries. Raphael's famous cartoons for The Acts of the Apostles were acquired by Charles I and woven at the short-lived Mortlake workshop. In Paris the same series was woven at the strictly controlled Gobelins workshop, which, together with the establishments at Beauvais and Aubusson, flourished until the French Revolution: The author, Mercedes Viale, describes the rise and decline of the European tapestry and tantalisingly leaves us looking into the future with the modern revival led by Jean Lurcat.