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Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel

London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 8.09 – 17.10.2010

The V&A announces that four of the ten tapestries designed by Raphael for the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City will go on show in September 2010. These are the original tapestries from the only series designed by Raphael of which examples survive, and are comparable with Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling as masterpieces of High Renaissance art. The tapestries will be displayed alongside the full-size designs for them – the famous Raphael Cartoons, which have been on display in the V&A since 1865. This will be the first time that the designs and tapestries have been displayed together – something Raphael himself never witnessed. The tapestries have not been shown before in the UK. The tapestries, of the Acts of St Peter and St Paul, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, Christ’s Charge to Peter, The Healing of the Lame Man, and The Sacrifice at Lystra, were made for the Sistine Chapel almost 500 years ago. Raphael was commissioned by Pope Leo X to design these great tapestries, which were woven in Brussels, Europe’s leading centre for tapestry-weaving, and then sent to Rome for display. As the cartoons remained in Brussels, Raphael himself never saw the cartoons beside the tapestries woven from them.


Gewebter Luxus. Tapisserien aus Beauvais und Würzburg

Residenz Würzburg (Residenzplatz 2, 97070 Würzburg), 29.06 - 31.10.2010

täglich 9.00 Uhr - 18.00 Uhr | Eintritt Residenz Würzburg €7,00 (regulär), €6,00 (ermäßigt)

http://www.residenz-wuerzburg.de/deutsch/aktuell/teppich/index.htm


Manufactures Nationales de 1960 à nos jours. Gobelins. Beauvais, Savonnerie

Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, 26.06 - 28.11.2010


Wogensky. Horizons chromatiques. Tapisseries

Paris, Galerie Chevalier, 20.05 – 19.06.2010


Giuseppe negli arazzi di Pontormo e Bronzino. Viaggio tra i tesori del Quirinale

Rome, Palazzo del Quirinale, Galleria di papa Alessandro VII, 29.04 - 30.06.2010

Exh.cat. edited by Louis Godart. Essays by Loretta Dolcini (iconographic study of Joseph), Chiara Nepi (botanical analysis of the borders), Lucia Meoni (history, style and representation of the Medici court), and technical report about the restoration of the series by the 'Laboratorio di Restauro Arazzi del Quirinale'


Las hazañas de un rey. Tapices flamencos del siglo XV en la Colegiata de Pastrana

Guadalajara (Spain), Museo de Guadalajara, Palacio del Infantado, 26.03 - 06.06.2010


Trésors de la Couronne d'Espagne. Un âge d'or de la tapisserie flamande

Paris, Galerie des Gobelins, 15.04 – 04.07.2010


La collection Toms. Tapisseries du XVIe au XIXe siècle

Lausanne, Espace Arlaud, 14.04 - 25.04.2010

Lyon, Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs, 21.05 - 20.06.2010


Flämische Tapisserien des 16. Jahrhunderts

Schlossmuseum Arnstadt, 28.03 - 21.11.2010


Willem de Pannemaker. La serie de Mercurio

Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 01.06 - 26.09.2010


Gli arazzi dei Gonzaga nel Rinascimento

Mantua, Frutterie del Palazzo Te, 13.03 – 27.06.2010

Curator: G. Delmarcel


Gods, Love and War. Tapestries of the Carnegie Institute

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 19.12.2009 - 13.06.2010


The Siege of Arzila and Tanger

Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, 12.01 - 14.03.2010

15th-century set from Pastrana, Spain. The exhibition will travel to Madrid and Toledo


Woven Pictures. 17th and 18th centuries European tapestries in the National Museum of Western Art Collection

Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, 18.03 - 25.05.2009


Rogier van der Weyden. De Passie van de Meester

Leuven, Museum M, 20.09 - 06.12.2009

Tapestries:
Trajan and Herkinbald, Bern, Historisches Museum (Anna Rapp)
History of Tarquinius Priscus, Zamora cathedral (Scott McKendrick & Lorne Campbell)
St. Luke drawing the Virgin, Musée du Louvre Paris (Elizabeth Cleland)


Fastes royaux. La collection de tapisseries de Louis XIV

Paris, Galerie des Gobelins, 20.09 – 15.11.2009 / extended until January 2010

Curators: A. Brejon de Lavergnée and Jean Vittet


Les lissiers d'Aubusson et de Felletin

Aubusson, musée départemental de la tapisserie, 16.05 – 05.10.2009

>> Includes the Tapisserie à l’éléphant (l'Asie) (Manufacture d’Alexis Sallandrouze de Lamornaix, ca. 1840-1843) from the Louvre (inv. OA 11775)


L'Enfance dans les collections du Louvre

Tokyo-Osaka, 25.03 - 01.06.2009 / 23.06 – 24.09.2009

>> L’Adoration des mages (Brussels, François Geubels, ca. 1570; inv. OA 5942); entry: Agnès Bos
>> Moïse sauvé des eaux (after Poussin and Le Brun; inv. OA 5705); entry: Frédéric Dassas
>> Les amours forgeant les armes pour Vénus (after Albane, Flemish, 18th-century; inv. OA 9402 B); entry: Frédéric Dassas
>> Le jeune élève and La jeune fille au chat (after Drouais, Gobelins, 1764; inv. OA 6521 and OA 6522); entry: Frédéric Dassas


Queen and Huntress, Chaste and Fair: The Rijksmuseum's Diana Tapestries

Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, 13.03 - 13.09.2009


Psyche au miroir d’Azay

Castle of Azay-le-Rideau, 20.05 – 30.08.2009
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Cortejo triumphal con Girafas. Animais exoticos ao serviço do poder

Lisbon, Museu de artes decorativas portuguesas, 04.06 – 30.08.2009

>> About the early 16th-century tapestry depicting giraffes


Charles the Bold. The Splendour of Burgundy

Bruges, Groeningemuseum, 27.03 - 21.07.2009


Tudor and Stuart Textiles 1485-1688

London, Franses (80 Jermyn Street, St James's, London SW1Y 6JD), 09.06 - 03.07.2009

>> The Franses exhibition at their London gallery includes embroidery and needlework pictures, valances, curtains, mirrors, cushions, table and bed covers, as well as rare examples of English Turkey work and Tapestry of museum quality. The selection of textiles begins with the accession of Henry VII in 1485 and ends with the Glorious Revolution of 1688.


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 dlices (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 espanoles 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 Bumler, Evamaria Brockhoff, Michael Henker (eds), Von Kaisers Gnaden. 500 Jahre Frstentum Pfalz-Neuburg, Verffentlichungen zur Bayerischen Geschichte und Kultur 50/05, Augsburg 2005 (ISBN 3-937973-01-6)


 

Un nouvel clairage sur le XVIIme sicle: Isaac Moillon (1614-1673), un peintre du roi Aubusson

Aubusson, Muse de la tapisserie, 11.06 - 12.09.2005
web site


 

Le Matre au feuillage brod

Lille, muse 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, Muse des tapisseries, 09 - 12.2004
Caen, Muse 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 sicle de la Fondation Toms Pauli

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

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


 

Primatice, matre de Fontainebleau

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

>> Scipio, La Galerie Franois 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 Chambord. La premire Renaissance

Chambord, Chteau de Chambord, 07.07 - 07.10.2004

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


 

Trsor de la Cathdrale

Lige (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, Lige.


 

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, Muse du Louvre, 22.03 - 12.07.2004

>> King Arthur, from the Nine Heroes (NY, The Cloisters).
>> Three Court Scenes (c. 1400) (Paris, Muse des Arts Dcoratifs).
>> 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'et 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 Fundacin Real Fbrica 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 franais. Dcouvertes et redcouvertes

Paris, Muse 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, Muse du Moyen Age) and of Hercules and the Lion of Nemea (Paris, Muse des arts dcoratifs) are attributed to the "Matre des trs 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 Knigsschlssern

Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg, 15.02 - 15.04.2004

exhibition catalogue

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Marie de Mdicis, un gouvernement par les arts

Blois, Chteau, 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).

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