2003-2004

Articles and Books

Arminjon, Catherine, 'Les saints de choeur. Tentures médiévales et Renaissance', L' Estampille-l'Objet d'Art 392 (June 2004): 60-69.

Bremer-David, Charissa, 'French & Company and American Collections of Tapestries, 1907-1959', Studies in the Decorative Arts XI, no.1 (Fall-Winter 2003-2004): 38-67.

Brosens, Koenraad, 'Charles Le Brun's Meleager and Atalanta and Brussels Tapestry c. 1675', Studies in the Decorative Arts, XI.1 (Fall-Winter 2003-2004): 5-37.

Brosens, Koenraad (ed.), Flemish Tapestry in European and American Collections. Studies in Honour of Guy Delmarcel, Turnhout (Brepols) 2003. (213 pages; ISBN : 2-503-52174-6)

Brosens, Koenraad, A Contextual Study of Brussels Tapestry, 1670-1770. The Dye Works and Tapestry Workshop of Urbanus Leyniers (1674-1747), Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, Nieuwe Reeks, vol. 13, Brussels 2004. (562 pages; ISBN 90-6569-928-7)

>> A first concise study of late seventeenth and eighteenth-century Brussels tapestry; focuses on the pivotal role played by the dyer Urbanus Leyniers who established a new tapestry workshop in 1712. Analysis of traditional and contemporary production models and sales catalogues; survey of Brussels landscape and history painting c.1670-1770. New archival data on life and work of numerous tapestry producers and designers.
review by Schmitz-von Ledebur

Brosens, Koenraad, 'The Duke of Arenberg's Brussels Chinoiserie Tapestries by Judocus de Vos', Filo Forme 4, no. 9 (Spring 2004): 3-6.

Brosens, Koenraad, 'The organisation of seventeenth-century tapestry production in Brussels and Paris. A comparative view', De Zeventiende Eeuw 20, 2 (2004): 264-284.

Campbell, Thomas P., 'New evidence on ‘Triumphs of Petrarch’ tapestries in the early sixteenth century. Part I: the French court', The Burlington Magazine CXLVI (June 2004): 376-385.

Campbell, Thomas P., 'New evidence on 'Triumph of Petrarch' tapestries in the early sixteenth century. Part II: the English court', The Burlington Magazine CXLVI (September 2004): 602-608.

Cassagnes-Brouquet, Sophie, 'Un rêve de chevalerie. Les Neuf Preux et les Neuf Preuses', L’Estampille-l’Objet d’art 382 (July-August 2003): 58-65.

Coquery, Emmanuel, 'Les Attributs de la Marine, d'après Jean Berain et Jean Lemoine. Une tenture d'exception entrée dans les collections du Louvre', La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 53, 5 (December 2003): 56-67.

Coquery, Emmanuel, 'La tenture de l'Histoire de sainte Ursule d'après Michel Corneille', in Objets d'art. Mélanges en l'honneur de Daniel Alcouffe, Dijon (Faton) 2004: 162-69.

Dacos, Nicole, 'De Perin del Vaga à Lambert Suavius. Les histoires d'Amour et de Psyché', Revue belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art LXXII (2003): 81-112.

Dacos, Nicole, 'Un raphaélesque calabrais à Rome, à Bruxelles et à Barcelone: Pedro Seraphin', Locus Amoenus [Universitat autonoma de Barcelona] 7 (2004): 171-196.

>> The author argues that Seraphin assisted Tommaso Vincidor with the creation of the Playing Children series.

Delmarcel, Guy, ‘The cartoons and tapestries of Rubens’s Life of Achilles’, in: Friso Lammertse and Alejandro Vergara (eds), Peter Paul Rubens. The Life of Achilles, exh. cat. (Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam/Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado) Rotterdam 2003: 33-41.

Delmarcel, Guy, 'Saint Paul before Porcius Festus, King Herod Agrippa and His Sister Berenice. A Flemish Renaissance Tapestry by Pieter Coecke van Aelst', Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 78, nos 1-2 (2004): 18–29.

De Meûter, Ingrid, 'Taferelen uit het leven van de Macedonische vorst Alexander, een nieuw depot in de K.M.K.G.', Bulletin des Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire 72 (2001) [published 2004]: 103-120.

De Meûter, Ingrid, 'L'oeuvre reconstitué du peintre anversois Pieter Spierinckx (1635-1711), créateur de cartons de tapisserie', Bulletin des Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire 72 (2001) [published 2004]: 121-152.

Forti Grazzini, Nello, Gli arazzi della Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia (Marsilio), 2003. (175 pages; ISBN 88-317-8361-0)

>> The collection encompasses mainly 15th and 16th-century tapestries; a.o. two pieces depicting the Vengeance of the Lord (Vespasian), c. 1485; four pieces of the Life of Scipio, Martin Reymbouts, c. 1580; a Landscape with Dragon, Oudenaarde, c. 1600; September and December, E. Leyniers, c. 1660; Cephalus, Beauvais, by Damoiselet, director Mérou, c. 1720; Port de Mer, Beauvais, c. 1722-33. Also tapestries that once made part of the Cini collection, now in the castle of Monselice: a.o. October, Tournai, c. 1520 and 4 pieces of the Life of Alexander, C. Mattens, c. 1600.

Forti Grazzini, Nello, 'Les tapisseries à Ferrare aux XVe et XVIe siècles', in: Une Renaissance particulière. La cour des Este à Ferrare, exh. cat. (Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts [Europalia Italia]), 2003: 326-333.

>> A summary of the author’s book and articles on the Ferrara production. Two tapestries exhibited: the Cosme Tura Deploration (Coll. Thyssen Madrid) and the Pergoline (Paris Musée des arts décoratifs). The catalogue entry for the latter piece curiously refers to the Phaeton tapestry from the same museum.

Forti Grazzini, Nello, 'Gli arazzi di Palazzo Clerici', in: Marina Mojana (ed.), Palazzo Clerici, la proiezione internazionale di Milano, privately printed by ISPI (Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale), Milano 2004: 159-179.

Forti Grazzini, Nello, 'Arazzi', in Rosanna Pavoni (ed.), Musei e Gallerie di Milano. Museo Bagatti Valsecchi. Tomo secondo, Milano (Electa) 2004: 599-613.

García Calvo, Margarita, 'Dos tapices flamencos “de Cruzadas’’ en la iglesia parroquial de Pastrana,' Goya 293 (March-April 2003): 81-90.

García Calvo, Margarita, 'Colección de tapices de la Catedral de Sigüenza,' Goya 301-302 (July-October 2004): 215-228.

>> The Cathedral of Sigüenza (Guadalajara) houses sixteen Brussels tapestries: the Story of Romulus and Remus (8) and Allegories of Palas Atenea (8). The pieces were woven by Le Clerc and Eggermans; they were donated by D. Andrés Bravo de Salamanca prior to or in 1664.

Glauco Curatola, Giovanni, I Misteri di Maria. Gli arazzi di Santa Maria Maggiore, Clusone (Ferrari Editrice) 2003. (95 pages)

>> A well illustrated book on the tapestries at Bergamo for non-specialist readers. The Life of the Virgin, 1583-84, models by Allori, woven in Florence by Benedetto Squilli, plus later (1696-98) additions woven in Antwerp by Reghelbrugge and designed by Lodewijk (Louis) van Schoor. The 16th century Flemish pieces are illustrated as well: Antique Triumphs, Phrixus and Helle, Hunting.

González-Palacios, Alvar, 'The Furnishing of the King of Naple's Hunting Lodge at Carditello', The Burlington Magazine CXLVI (October 2004): 683-690.

>> The Life of Henri IV after designs by Fischetti; produced by Pietro and Giovanni Duranti at the Real Arazzeria.

Hacke, A.M., C.M. Carr, A. Brown, and D. Howell, 'Investigation into the nature of metal threads in a renaissance tapestry and the cleaning of tarnished silver by UV/Ozone (UVO) treatment', Journal of materials science 38 (2003): 3307-3314.

Hartkamp-Jonxis, Ebeltje and Hillie Smit, European Tapestries in the Rijksmuseum, Catalogues of the Decorative Arts in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, vol. 5, Amsterdam/Zwolle (Waanders Publishers/Rijksmuseum) 2004. (463 pages; ISBN 90-400-8782-2) €180

>> The eagerly awaited catalogue of the vast Amsterdam collection. 124 scholarly entries, several of which including a number of tapestries; all pieces are reproduced in colour; much comparative material; 140 black/white illustrations; essays on the History of the collection, Tapestries from the Northern Netherlands, and Floral table carpets. An indispensable tool for tapestry scholars.
reviews by Bremer-David, Brosens, Schmitz-von Ledebur, De Meûter

Herrero Carretero, Concha, ‘La Fortaleza. Cortina de la Colgadura del Dormitorio de Carlos III en el Palacio Nuevo de Madrid,’ Reales Sitios XLI, 161 (3e trimestre 2004): 24-35.

Herrero Carretero, Concha, Tapices de Isabel la Católica. Origen de la colección real española, Madrid (Patrimonio Nacional) 2004. (ISBN 84-7120-380-4)

Hunt, David, 'The association of the Lady and the Unicorn, and the hunting mythology of the Caucasus', Folklore 114, no.1 (2003): 75-90.

Mabille, Gérard, 'Le grand buffet d'argenterie de Louis XIV et la tenture des Maisons royales', in Objets d'art. Mélanges en l'honneur de Daniel Alcouffe, Dijon (Faton) 2004: 181-91.

Mankin, Urve, Tallinn rae piltvaibad. Tallinn Town Council’s Tapestries, Tallinna (Linna muuseum) 2004. (31 pages; ISBN 9949-10-398-3)

Meoni, Lucia, 'L’arazzo con la Madonna della gatta e le copie tessute di Pietro Févère dai quadri della granduchessa Vittoria della Rovere', in: Antonio Natali (ed.), Federico Barocci. Il miracolo della Madonna della gatta, (Le stanze di Calliope.Collana degli Amici degli Uffizi,3), Milano (Silvana ed.) 2003: 123-137. (ISBN 88-8215-638-9)

>> An exceptional case where the tapestry has been used to restore the heavily damaged painting at the Uffizi; further comments on several other tapestry copies of paintings by Barocci.

Meoni, Lucia, 'Un arazzo della "favola di Giasone" tessuto a Firenze per il conte Alfonso I Gonzaga di Novellara', Filo Forme 4, no. 9 (Spring 2004): 13-19.

Mertens, Wim, 'Twee koninklijke ameublementen in tapisserie de Beauvais in het paleis te Brussel: aansluiting bij een Franse keizerlijke traditie', Gentse Bijdragen tot de Interieurgeschiedenis 32 (2003): 55-76.

Nassieu Maupas, Audrey, ‘La Vie de saint Jean-Baptiste d’Angers et la production de tapisserie à Paris dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle’, Revue de l’Art 145, 3 (2004): 41-53.

Nilsén, Anna, The Lady with the Unicorn- a Lady of her Time (Runica et Mediaevalia, Lectiones 3), Stockholm 2004. (39 pages; ISBN 91-88568-229)

Noldus, Badeloch, Trade in Good Taste. Relations in architecture and culture between the Dutch Republic and the Baltic world in the seventeenth century, Architectura Moderna, vol. 2, Turnhout (Brepols) 2004. (ISBN 2-503-51489-8; 217 p.) [Includes information on Peter Spierinck, son of François Spierinck; a portrait is in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.]

Quinci, Katiuscia, 'Enea come 'speculum principis' in un salone di Palazzo Doria', Ricerche di storia dell'arte 82-83 (2004): 87-166.

>> Article on the iconography of Andrea Doria's now lost Aeneas tapestries after designs by Perino del Vaga. Replicas in Milan (Castello Sforzesco), Vienna (Angewandte Kunst), and Palermo (Villa Whitaker). [Nello Forti Grazzini]

Rábanos Faci, Carmen, 'Tapices', in Colección Ibercaja, Zaragoza (Ibercaja ed.) 2003: 387-449. (ISBN-84-8324-159-5)

Scarazzolo, Michela, 'La raccolta di arazzi della Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro di Venezia', Filo Forme 4, no. 9 (Spring 2004): 7-12.

>> a.o. Story of Esther (Brussels, early 16th century); Story of Noah (Brussels, late 16th century); Bathsheba and Nathan before David (Brussels, Jan de Buck, ca. 1570); Atalanta and Hippomenes (Brussels, late 16th century).

Schneebalg–Perelman, Sophie, La tapisserie des Pays-Bas sous les ducs de Bourgogne, Archives et bibliothèques de Belgique, n° spécial 68, Brussels 2003. (162 pp.; posthumous edition of essays by the author who died in 1988)

Standen, Edith A. and Jennifer Wearden, ‘Early modern tapestries and carpets c.1500-1780,' in: David Jenkins (ed.), The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, Cambridge (UP) 2003. (ISBN 0-521-34107-8)

Stratmann-Dohler, Rosemarie, '"Alte Kunstschatze" im Bruchsaler Schloss. Die Wirkteppiche aus dem Besitz der Furstbischofe von Speyer', Weltkunst 73, 5 (May 2003): 702-704.

Turner, Hilary L., 'The Sheldon Tapestry Maps: their Content and Context', The Cartographic Journal 40, no. 1 (June 2003): 39-49.

Vittet, Jean, 'Les tapisseries de Michel Particelli d'Hémery et de son gendre Louis Phélypeaux de La Vrillière', in Objets d'art. Mélanges en l'honneur de Daniel Alcouffe, Dijon (Faton) 2004: 170-79.

Weigert, Laura, 'Velum Templi: Painted Cloths of the Passion and the Making of Lenten Rituals in Reims', Studies in Iconography 24 (2003): 199-229.

Weigert, Laura, Weaving Sacred Stories. French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity, Ithaca (Cornell University Press) 2004. (ISBN 0-8014-4008-4)

Book and exhibition reviews

Bertrand, Pascal-François, review of: Guy Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry, 1999, in: Studies in the Decorative Arts X, no.2 (Spring-Summer 2003): 136-139.

Bertrand, Pascal-François, review of: Thomas P. Campbell et al., Tapestry in the Renaissance, Art and Magnificence, New York 2002, in: Studies in the Decorative Arts XI, no.1 (Fall-Winter 2003-2004): 111-114.

Franke, Birgit, review of: Anna Rapp Buri and Monica Stucky-Schürer, Burgundische Tapisserien, München (Hirmer Verlag) 2001, in: Journal für Kunstgeschichte. Die internationale Rezensionszeitschrift 7, 3 (2003): 200-208.

Kraatz, Anne, review of: Guy Delmarcel (ed.), Flemish Tapestry Weavers Abroad. Emigration and the Founding of Manufactories in Europe. Proceedings of the international conference Mechelen, 2-3 October 2000 (Symbolae. Facultatis Litterarum Lovaniensis, Series B, vol. 27), Leuven (University Press) 2002, in: Studies in the Decorative Arts XI, no.2 (Spring-Summer 2004): 128-130.

Nelson, Kristi, review of: Koenraad Brosens (ed.), Flemish Tapestry in European and American Collections. Studies in Honour of Guy Delmarcel (Studies in Western Tapestry, 1), Turnhout (Brepols) 2003, in: Historians of Netherlandish Art. Review of Books

Weddingen, Tristan, review of: Anna Rapp Buri and Monika Stucky-Schürer, Burgundische Tapisserien, 2001, in: Studies in the Decorative Arts X, no.2 (Spring-Summer 2003): 139-143.

Weigert, Laura, 'Tapestry Exposed', The Art Bulletin 85, 4 (December 2003): 784-796.

>>Tapestry in the Renaissance, New York 2002; and Edle Wirkung: Burgunder Tapisserien im neuen Licht, Bern 2002.

Exhibition catalogues

Sao Paulo/Curitiba/Porto Alegre 2004
Françoise Barbe et Patrick Lemasson, A Arte da Tapeçaria. Coleçao do Petit Palais Paris, exh. cat. (Sao Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado/Curitiba, Museu Oscar Niemeyer/Porto Alegre, Museu do Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Lmalagoli) Sao Paulo 2004. (137 p.)

Les collections de la Ville de Paris, gérées par le Musée du Petit Palais, sont toujours restées un peu dans l’ombre d’institutions plus grandes et mieux connues de la capitale française. C'est aussi le cas pour les tapisseries qui furent toutefois publiées en 1948 par Juliette Niclausse. De grands travaux d’aménagements et de restaurations ont incité la direction d’organiser des expositions ambulantes de certaines parties de ce patrimoine, et ainsi 26 tapisseries circulent à présent dans des musées du Brésil. Le catalogue bilingue (texte principal en portugais, mais texte original français reproduit aussi intégralement à la fin du livre) est très soigné, et en plus de quelques introductions bien structurées il nous fait redécouvrir pas mal de pièces très intéressantes. En voici la liste:
>> Alexandre et Nicolas, vers 1480
>> Ulysse tuant le sanglier, Bruxelles vers 1600
>> Chasses de Maximilien, le Mois de Mars, Gobelins 1691-93
>> Didon et Enée surpris par l’orage, d’après M. Corneille(?), Paris vers 1650
>> Histoire d’Artémise: les Philosophes, Soldat portant une tourelle, Turin(?) après 1766
>> Décollation de St. Protais, d’après S. Bourdon, Galerie du Louvre, dès 1655
>> Histoire de Moïse: le Buisson ardent, le Serpent d’Airain, d’après Le Brun, Gobelins 1714-17
>> Le Manège: Balotades à gauche, un Turc, d’après Van Diepenbeeck, Anvers 1660-1680
>> Les jeux d’Enfants: Saute-Mouton, la Danse des enfants, d’après Corneille (?), Aubusson vers 1720
>> Les jeux d’Enfants: la Corde, Les Billes, d’après Damoiselet, Beauvais vers 1720
>> Ténières: le Retour de la Moisson, l’Hiver, Bruxelles vers 1740-60
>> Les jeux russiens: la Danse, la Chasse aux Oiseaux, d’après Le Prince, Beauvais 1769-93
>> Les Bohémiens: Campement, d’après Casanova, Beauvais dès 1777
>> Psyché conduite par Zéphyr dans le palais de l’Amour, d’après Boucher, Beauvais 1741-1778
>> Diane et Astrée endormies, d’après Deshays, Beauvais 1763-73
>> Pastorales à draperies bleues et arabesques, et Pastorales à palmiers, d’après Huet, Beauvais 1780-90

Malbork (Poland) 2004
Blask renesansu w sredniowiecznym zamku. The splendour of Renaissance in medieval castles. The applied and decorative art from the State Hermitage Museum in Sankt (sic) Petersburg, exh. cat. (Castle-Museum of Malbork, Poland) 2004. (ISBN 83-86206-76-4; 266 p.)

>> A selection of 25 tapestries from the Ermitage, late 15th to early 17th centuries. Including: Apostles Thomas and Mattheus (nr. 1; Basel, 15th c.); Deer Hunt (nr. 2; Strasbourg 15th c.), Virgin of the Sablon (nr.9; Brussels 1518); Story of Christ and Virgin Mary (nrs. 10-13; early 16th, choir tapestries from Clermont cathedral, arms of Amboise family); Ceres and Bacchus from the Seasons by Perino del Vaga (nrs. 16-17, Brussels mid 16th c.); Hercules and the Centaurs (nr.18; Brussels early 17th c., mark of Jan Raes, not Leyniers as stated); Hunting Scene (nr.22; definitley Bruges, late 16th c.); Life of Noah (nr. 24-25; Brussels, G. van Cortenbergh, early 17th c., simplified reedition of the Wawel set).

Berlin 2004
Don Quichotte und Ragotin. Zwei komische Helden in den preussischen Königsschlössern, exh. cat. (Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg), Berlin/Cologne 2004. (ISBN 3-8321-7427-3)

>> Considerable attention is paid to Charles Coypel's Don Quixote set; the catalogue includes some of the paintings and four pieces that are in Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg (Gobelins, Cozette 1774-76); two of Natoire's Don Quixote tapestries (Aix-en-Provence) are also included, as well as numerous engravings and cartoons. Articles by Suzanne Evers, ‘Die Geschichte der Don Quichotte-Tapisserien in Preussen’, and Johannes Hartau, ‘Zur Don Quichotte-Rezeption in der Kunst bis Coypel’ with comments and ill. of the English series by Francis Poyntz.

Middelburg 2004
C.A. van Swigchem, G. Ploos van Amstel, Zes unieke wandtapijten: strijd op de Zeeuwse stromen, 1572-1576, Zwolle (Waanders) 1991 [sic; 1991 publication serves as 'catalogue']. (160 pages; ISBN 90-6630-302-6)

Fontainebleau/Versailles 2003-2004
Vincent Droguet, Xavier Salmon, Danièle Véron-Denise, Animaux d’Oudry, exh. cat. (Fontainebleau, Château/Versailles, Château), Paris 2003. (207 pages; ISBN 2-7118-4582-6)

Vienna 2004
W. Seipel (ed.), K. Schmitz-von Ledebur, Szenen aus dem Buch Tobias aus der Tapisseriensammlung des Kunsthistorisches Museum, exh. cat. (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum), Milan (Skira) 2004. (125 pages; ISBN 3-85497-083-8)

Vienna 2003-2004
Kaiser Ferdinand I. 1503-1564. Das Werden der Habsburgermonarchie, exh. cat. (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum), Milan (Skira) 2003. (598 pages)

>> Notre-Dame du Sablon (Brussels); Granvelle Gardens (Vienna); Maximilian Hunts: March and December (Paris); Armorial of Margaret of Austria (Budapest); Joshuah , by P. Coecke (Vienna); Life of David (Vienna); Armorial of Bavaria, from the Antwerp Hercules (Munich); Hercules, Oudenaarde (Vienna)

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