Studies in Western Tapestry

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Dutch Tapestry in the Golden Age. 1590-1650. Baroque Masterpieces from the Northern Netherlands

New York, Franses (132 East 61th Street), 19.10-14.12.2007

Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.10.2007 - 06.01.2008

A taste for the exotic. Chinoiserie: European tapestry and needlework 1680-1780

Franses Gallery (80 Jermyn Street, London), 07.06 – 20.07.2007

Visions du Déluge, de la Renaissance au XIXe siècle

Dijon, Musée Magnin, 11.10.2006 - 10.1.2007
Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux Arts, 2.2.2007 -29.4.2007

>> Four tapestries of the Life of Noach, by P. Van Nieuwenhove, Fondation Toms-Pauli.

ArTapestry. Première triennale européenne de la tapisserie

Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, 12.11.2006 - 13.5.2007

Scipion et Hannibal, tapisseries des rois

Chambord, castle, 18.5 - 12.11.2006

>> A Brussels 17th-century set, from the workshops of Hendrik I Reydams and Everaert III Leyniers. Property of the Monuments Historiques (in deposit in Tarascon). Previously shown in Chambord, Lisses et délices (1996) [exh. cat.: 46-57].

Threads

Cotehele, Cornwall (The National Trust), 9.9.2006 - 28.10.2006

>>Coptic to Cotehele, Cotehele to Contemporary, Contemporary Tapestry in Focus, The Belgian Connection

>> info: cotehele[at]nationaltrust.org.uk

Le musée de la tapisserie: 20 ans déjà! (1986-2006)

Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, 2.6 - 15.10.2006

Tapisserie, l'art et la matière

Château de Lavardens, 1.7.2006 - 18.9.2006

>> More than 40 tapestries made in the twentieth century

Michel Corneille

Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 8.4.2006 - 9.7.2006

>> 10 tapestries woven in Paris around 1650

Goya 1746-1828

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 18.10.2005 - 8.1.2006

>> 11 tapestries from the Patrimonio Nacional, 10 cartoons from the Prado, essay on Goya and tapestry production in Madrid by K. Schmitz-von Ledebur

Don Quijote: Tapices españoles del siglo XVIII

Dallas, Meadows Museum, 19.09 - 13.11.2005
Toledo, Museo de Santa Cruz, 01.12.2005 - 19.02.2006

Giant Leaf Tapestries of the Renaissance 1500-1600

New York, Franses, 21.10 - 25.11.2005

>> Franses opens their New York Gallery this fall and organises an exhibition on 16th-century 'Giant Leaf Tapestries'. A full color catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

Von Kaisers Gnaden. 500 Jahre Pfalz-Neuburg

Neuburg a.d. Donau-Schloss Neuburg, 03.06 - 16.10.2005

>> Hanns Hubach, '...mit golt, silber und seyd kostlichst, erhaben, feyn unnd lustig gmacht. Pfalzgraf Ottheinrich und die Bildteppichproduktion in Neuburg 1539-1544/45', in Suzanne Bäumler, Evamaria Brockhoff, Michael Henker (eds), Von Kaisers Gnaden. 500 Jahre Fürstentum Pfalz-Neuburg, Veröffentlichungen zur Bayerischen Geschichte und Kultur 50/05, Augsburg 2005 (ISBN 3-937973-01-6)

Un nouvel éclairage sur le XVIIème siècle: Isaac Moillon (1614-1673), un peintre du roi à Aubusson

Aubusson, Musée de la tapisserie, 11.06 - 12.09.2005
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Le Maître au feuillage brodé

Lille, musée des Beaux-Arts, 13.05 - 24.07.2005

>> Marie source d'Eau Vive (La Vierge glorieuse) (Louvre OA 3133) (Brussels, pre-Renaissance)
>> Saint Luc peignant la Vierge (Louvre OA 3999) (Brussels, pre-Renaissance)

Saints de Choeurs. Tapisseries du Moyen Age

Toulouse, Ensemble conventuel des Jacobins, 24.04 - 31.08.2004
Aix-en-Provence, Musée des tapisseries, 09 - 12.2004
Caen, Musée de Normandie, 01 - 05.2005

>> Catalogue: ISBN 88-7439-108-0.

Low Sky, Wide Horizon. Art of the Low Countries in Estonia

Tallinn, Kadriorg Art Museum, 17.09.2004 - 17.04.2005

>> Solomon and Armorial Verdures, Enghien, 1547.

Tapisseries flamandes du 16e au 18e siècle de la Fondation Toms Pauli

Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 24.09.2004 - 09.01.2005
www.toms-pauli.ch

>> G. Delmarcel, Ph. Lüscher, N. de Reyniès, D. Weidmann, Collection Toms. De fils et de couleurs: tapisseries du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle (1997) is used as catalogue.

Primatice, maître de Fontainebleau

Paris, Louvre, 22.09.2004 - 03.01.2005
www.louvre.fr

>> Scipio, La Galerie François Ier, "Les Dieux Arabesques" (Fontainebleau or Paris).
exhibition catalogue

Szenen aus dem Buch Tobias aus der Tapisseriensammlung des Kunsthistorisches Museum

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 31.08 - 17.10.2004
www.khm.at

>> This series, attributed to the circle of Bernard van Orley, once made part of the tapestry collection of Emperor Franz Stephan I of Lorraine. The complete set has just been restored and is now on show for the first time.
exhibition catalogue

De l'Italie à Chambord. La première Renaissance

Chambord, Château de Chambord, 07.07 - 07.10.2004

>> Chasses de François Ier, Scipio, Chasses de Maximilien from Chartres.

Trésor de la Cathédrale

Liège (Belgium), Cathedral, 26.06 - 30.09.2004

>> About 20 tapestries from the Castles of Angers and Saumur, the cathedral of Angers, and the palace of the bishop, Liège.

Woven History. Zeeland Tapestries 1593-1604
Geweven Geschiedenis. Zeeuwse wandtapijten 1593-1604

Middelburg, Zeeuws Museum, 29.05 - 12.09.2004

>> The six pieces were woven between 1593 and 1604 and have been restored over the past fifty years. www. zeeuwsmuseum.nl
exhibition catalogue

Paris 1400. Les arts sous Charles VI

Paris, Musée du Louvre, 22.03 - 12.07.2004

>> King Arthur, from the Nine Heroes (NY, The Cloisters).
>> Three Court Scenes (c. 1400) (Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs).
>> Le Don du Coeur (Paris, Louvre).
>> Catalogue RMN/Fayard, ISBN 2-2136-2022-9.

Jean Lurçat (Donation Simone Lurçat)

Paris, Palais de l'Institut de France, Salle Comtesse de Caen
27, quai de Conti - 75006 Paris, 16.06 - 22.08.2004

>> Une quinzaine de tapisseries; catalogue prévu.

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L'età di Rubens. Dimore, committenti e collezionisti genovesi

Genua, Palazzo Ducale, 20.03 - 11.06.2004

>> 3 Brussels Cyrus pieces attributed to Jan van Tieghem (Warsaw, Royal Palace; Toronto, coll. H.A. Levitt)
>> 2 Brussels Decius Mus pieces by Jan II Raes and Jacob II Geubels after Rubens (Madrid, Royal Palace)
>> Catalogue edited by P. Boccardo (Milan, Skira, 2004)

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Isabel la Catolica. La magnificencia de un reinado

Valladolid, Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de Prado
Medina del Campo (Valladolid), Colegiata de San Antolin
Madrigal de Las Altas Torres, 26.02 - 30.06.2004

>> Three exhibitions celebrating the fifth centenary of the death of Queen Isabel of Castile (1504).
>> Tydeus and Policines, from the Story of Thebe (Ayuntamiento de Madrid); conservation treatment by the Fundación Real Fábrica de Tapices.
>> Ascension, from the Redemption of Man series (Cathedral of Palencia).
>> The Abduction of Helen, from the Trojan War (Cathedral of Zamora)
>> Natura and Scriptura, from Las Moralidades (PN, series 5/II and III)
>> Birth of Christ and Coronation of the Virgin, from the Life of the Virgin (PN, series 1/III and IV)
>> Birth of Christ and the Magi (PN, series 7/I)
>> Catalogue edited by the Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones culturales. Junta de Castilla y Leon, 541 p.; ISBN 9-788495-486813. With an introductory essay by Matteo Mancini, 'Migraciones iconograficas: la serie de tapices de Zamora y el ciclo de Santa Ursula de Carpaccio': 187-200.

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Primitifs français. Découvertes et redécouvertes

Paris, Musée du Louvre, 27.02 - 17.05.2004

>> Catalogued edited by D. Thibaut (RMN; ISBN 2-7118-4771-3)
>> The designs of the Lady and the Unicorn (Paris, Musée du Moyen Age) and of Hercules and the Lion of Nemea (Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs) are attributed to the "Maître des très Petites Heures d'Anne de Bretagne" (p. 102-104).

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Velasquez, Bernini, Luca Giordano. Le corti del Barocco

Roma, Scuderie del Quirinale, 12.02 - 02.05.2004

>> Catalogue edited by F. Checa Cremades (Milan, Skira, 2004; ISBN 88-8491-837-5). Tapestries on display:
>> The Encounter of Philip IV and Louis XIV, from the Histoire du Roi (Gobelins; Paris, Mobilier national)
>> Four pieces of the Poesias (Madrid, PN, Series 19)

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Don Quichotte und Ragotin. Zwei komische Helden in den preussischen Königsschlössern

Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg, 15.02 - 15.04.2004

exhibition catalogue

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Marie de Médicis, un gouvernement par les arts

Blois, Château, 29.11.2003 - 28.03.2004

>> Catalogue ISBN 2-85056-710-8
>> Mary's tapestry collection is unfortunately not discussed. Only two pieces of a very early Artemisia edition are included (p. 136-137).

Giant Leaf Tapestries

Pfalz-Neuburg

Isaac Moillon

Maître au feuillage brodé