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Adelson, Candace
Senior Curator of Fashion & Textiles Tennessee State Museum
505 Deaderick Street, Nashville, TN 37243-1120, USA
tel. 615-741-2692

>> 'Tapestries and Textiles', in: Systematic Catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (under revision).

>> Quilts of Tennesse State Museum; tapestries by Tennessee artists; Tennessee-related costume and textiles in general.

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Bauer, Rotraud

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Bertrand, Pascal-Franois
Professeur d'Histoire de l'Art moderne
Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3
U.F.R. Histoire de l'Art et Archéologie
Domaine universitaire
pascal.bertrand@u-bordeaux3.fr
33607 PESSAC CEDEX, FRance
+ 33 (0)557 12 46 28

>> Rapports tapisserie/peinture; Tapisserie et ameublement; Tapisserie française

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Bremer-David, Charissa
Associate Curator European Sculpture & Decorative Arts
The J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1000, Los Angeles, CA 90066-1687, USA

>> An essay titled “Why Boucher? The Enduring Appeal of Boucher Tapestries” and seven catalogue entries on the Savonnerie carpets and paravents, Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries in The Henry E. Huntington Art Gallery, San Marino, California.
>> The activities, role, and influence of the New York art and antiques firm, French and Company, the foremost dealer in tapestries from 1907 to 1959.
>> A case study of a French lit à la polonaise and its upholstery after Philippe de Lasalle.

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Brosens, Koenraad
Professor, History of Art Dept
KULeuven, Faculty of Arts
Blijde Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
tel. +32 (0)16 324 869 / fax +32 (0)16 324 872

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Brun, Sophie
Ph.D student, Paris, University Paris IV-Sorbonne
sophie.brun[at]gmail.com

>> The choir tapestries of Saint-Robert of La Chaise-Dieu; advisor: Prof. Dr. Fabienne Joubert

As one of the most spectacular cycle of medieval tapestries preserved, the fourteen woven panels of La Chaise-Dieu (Auvergne) depict episodes of Jesus and Mary's life along with scenes extracted from the Old Testament. Their many blazons have always identified their patron with Jacques de Saint-Nectaire, abbot of the Benedictine institution from 1491 to 1518. Although most of the patterns used by the painters have been identified by Emile Mle as extracted from the Biblia Pauperum, this work will reveal additional unpublished graphic sources. By analyzing how these engravings have been used, it will raise hypothesis reconstructing the circumstances of the command, such as the artistic circle of the painters and the role played by the patron. Then, thanks to the tremendous group of evidences offered by this unique set, a new insight will be given about the distinctive roles played by the master painter, his assistants and the weavers' workshop in this particular historical context.


 

Buchanan, Iain
Associate Professor Art History Department, Auckland University
Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand

>> Habsburg Tapestries. This is a book scheduled for completion at the end of 2005 which looks at the tapestry patronage of the Habsburg rulers of the Netherlands: Margaret of Austria, the Emperor Charles V, Philip II of Spain and Mary of Hungary. Some of the research has already appeared in the articles listed in the bibliography.

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Caen, Barbara
PhD-student, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universitat Zurich
Ramistrasse 73, 8006 Zurich
barbaracaen[at]gmx.ch
http://www.khist.uzh.ch/neuzeit/assist/caen.html

>> Tapestries in the 19th Century
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen, co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Koenraad Brosens

The dissertation analyses tapestry production in the 19th century. Due to the abundance of research, we focus on the production in France in comparison with some manufactures abroad. Although scholars in the 19th century such as Alfred Darcel, Edouard Gerspach, Jules Guiffrey and Eugène Müntz in France and Alexandre Pinchart and Alfred Wauters in Belgium dealt with this issue, little attention has been given to the topic during the 20th century. The most important publications include those by Fernand Calmettes (1912), Pierre Vaisse (1973), Pascal-François Bertrand (1995) and Chantal Gastinel-Coural (1996). Their contributions to the knowledge of the 19th century tapestry production are essential for the forthcoming research.
The first chapter gives a brief overview of the scholarly research about the tapestry production in the 19th century. This chapter will be divided into two main sections: the first concerning historiography, the second regarding the extant visual material related to tapestry production in the 19th century.
The following chapter questions the historical context – from the French Revolution until the eve of the First World War – to be a favourable context for tapestry production. The position of this medium as a craft and the status of the craftsman during the age of proto-industrialisation will be one of the main topics in the first part. The second part focuses on the social and artistic context in which the medium was displayed: in exhibitions, salons, museums and collections, national ceremonies and royal visits. A last part reflects on the perceptions on the contemporary production by 19th century scholars. In comparison with the historiographic part of the first chapter, this part will analyse the literary appreciation of the medium.
The third chapter illustrates tapestry production in relation to historical settings. An analysis of the iconographical themes in new national institutions, 'neo-style' architecture and renovated residences underlines the power of a historical medium during the rise of nationalism and the creation of nation states.


 

Campbell, Thomas P.
Director
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028
tel. (00 1) 212 879 5500 x 3463 / fax. (00 1) 212 650 2957

>> The tapestry collection of Henry VIII, book to be published by Yale University Press, ca. 2006.

>> Tapestry in the Baroque, international loan exhibition to be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fall 2007.

>> WEFT ID: (Western European Figurative Tapestry Image Database); pilot project for image database of European tapestries at the Antonio Ratti Textile Center in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Cleland, Elizabeth A.H.
Assistant curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028, USA

>> Cross-currents between different media, in particular the reuse of existing painted and printed designs in tapestry cartoons of the 15th Century Southern Netherlands (see also doctoral dissertation).
>> Spring 2004: 15th Century perceptions of small-scale devotional tapestries (exploring aspects of design, function, display and relation to other art objects, through means of documentary and object-based research).

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Collins, Patricia
Curator, Medieval & Renaissance Collections
Glasgow City Council, Cultural & Leisure Services (Museums)
The Burrell Collection
2060 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow G43 1AT
Phone: (0141) 287 2560 / Fax: (0141) 287 2597 / pat.collins[at]csglasgow.org

>> Research related to a proposed fully-illustrated catalogue of Sir William Burrell's important tapestry collection. The collection comprises over 200 tapestries made in Germany, Switzerland, France, Flanders and the Netherlands, mostly dated pre-1600.

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Coquery, Emmanuel
Former Curator Textiles and Tapestries of the Louvre (Paris)
Directeur des muses de Troyes
Place Saint-Pierre, 10000 Troyes
tel. +33 (0)3 25 42 33 33

>> Catalogue of the tapestries of the Louvre.

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Delmarcel, Guy
Emeritus Professor KULeuven
Van Schoonbekestraat 140, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium
phone +32 (0)3 248 58 48

>> Lexicon of marks and signatures on Flemish tapestry.

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De Meter, Ingrid
Curator of Tapestries and Textiles, Royal Museum of Art and History
Parc du Cinquentenaire, 10, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
tel. +32 (0)2 741 74 20 / fax +32 (0)2 733 77 35

>> Crosscurrents between the production centres Brussels, Audenarde and Antwerp, 1670-1720.

>> Collaborator of the European project Monitoring of Damage in Historic Tapestries.

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Dimitroff, Kate
PhD-student, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh

>> Unraveling Christ's Passion: Archbishop Dalmau de Mur's Artistic Patronage & Flemish Tapestries in Fifteenth-Century Spain. Advisor: Prof. Alison Stones

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Ebel, Konstanze
An Brenigs Ziegelei 72, 53175 Bonn, Germany
tel. 0049-228-259 85 00

>> Die Trionfi nach Petrarca. Eine Bildteppichserie im Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum (1535/1540), Ma thesis, FU Berlin.

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Elias-Beaumont, Marie-Henriette
Lassuslaan 2, 3723 LK Bilthoven, the Netherlands

>> Repertory of Flemish Tapestries in Italian Public Collections, region Piemonte, Liguria. In collaboration with the Dutch Institute of Art, NIKI, in Florence, Italy.

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Forti Grazzini, Nello
Corso Porta Vigentina 1, 20100 Milano, Italia
tel. 02 3495603 / 02 8323228

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García Calvo, Margarita
C/ José Antonio 14/2, Ocaña 45300, Spain
tel. 925120312

>> Research on the tapestry collection of the Selgas-Fagalde Foundation (Asturias). This collection encompasses 16 Flemish tapestries of the 16th and 17th centuries, including biblical (Tobias, Jacob, Noah) and mythological scenes (Apollo and Daphne, Meleager and Atalanta).

>> Research on the tapestry collection of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao.

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Hefford, Wendy
Research Department, Victoria & Albert Museum
London SW7 2RL, UK

>> From Mortlake to Soho: English Tapestry 1619-1782. This book incorporates catalogue entries for the V&A's collection (over 60 tapestries plus some small furnishings) but deals with all English tapestry of the period. This work is done with the support of the V&A and the assistance of the Leverhulme trust.

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Herrero Carretero, Concha
Curator of Tapestries and Textiles Patrimonio Nacional
Palacio Real, c/Bailén s/n, 28071 Madrid, Spain
fax 91 454 87 21

>> Tesoro de Devoción de la Corona de España: Tapices de la Reina Isabel, de Juana de Castilla y de Margarita de Austria, Madrid 2004 [forthcoming].
>> Catálogo de Tapices del Patrimonio Nacional. IV: Tapices para el Palacio Nuevo, Madrid [2006].
>> Exhibition: El Quijote [2005].
>> Monitoring of Damage in Historic Tapestries; project funded by the EC.

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Heym, Sabine
Oberkonservatorin
Bayerische Verwaltung der staatlichen Schlsser, Grten und Seen
Postfach 202063, 80020 Mnchen, Germany

>> 2003: Restoration and presentation of Hercules and the Lernean Hydra, from the Labours of Hercules set; Antwerp, workshop of Michiel de Bos, after Frans Floris, 1565/67 (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich Residenz).
>> Inventory of the tapestry collection of the Bayerische Verwaltung der staatlichen Schlsser, Grten und Seen.

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Hollestelle, Harry W.B.
Wagnerlaan 4, 5242 HK Rosmalen, The Netherlands
tel. +31 73 5213036

>> Research on Abraham van Diepenbeeck; focus on Van Diepenbeeck's tapestry designs.
>> The Story of Tamerlan and Bayazid (Antwerp, c. 1670) [forthcoming].
>> The Redemption of Man (unpublished ms).

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Hubach, Hanns
Kalchbhlstrasse 150, 8038 Zrich (Wollishofen), Switzerland
tel. +41 (0)43 243 1803
Universitt Zrich, Kunsthistorisches Insitut, Rmistrasse 73, 8006 Zrich, Switzerland
tel. +41 (0)1 634 2825

>> The former tapestry collection of the Electors Palatine 1400-1700.
Within the framework of a larger research project concerning the arts and the court of the Electors Palatine of the Rhine at Heidelberg (1400-1700), I am trying to assemble all pieces and documentary evidence of the Pfalzgrafen's former tapestry collection. This magnificent collection, which contained about 550 pieces in 1620, was split during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) and during the Pflzischer Erbfolgekrieg, when Heidelberg was pillaged by Louis XIV's troops in 1689-1693. The main part of my study concerns the tapestry workshops of the Heidelberg Court, which were established as early as 1435 and kept producing tapestries until 1689.

>> Apart from my general research on the tapestry collection of the Electors Palatine, I am preparing a major study on the reception and understanding of high medieval tapestries (12th-13th centuries) in the early modern period (ca. 1450-1550). Hanns Hubach: Sigismund Meisterlins ‘Epistola de tapeciis antiquis’ (1464) und die Funktion von Tapisserien als historische Beglaubigungsmedien im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. My starting point is Sigismund Meisterlin's fairly unknown treatise on tapestries from the Murbach Monestary (I will edit a translation of the latin text) and I close my discourse with Dürer's woodcut of the Michelfeld-Tapestry, which to my knowledge is the first pictorial representation of an extant tapestry for its own sake.

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Humphrey, Nick
Furniture, Textiles and Fashion Dept, Victoria and Albert Museum
London SW7 2RL
tel. 0207 942 2682 / fax 0207 942 2678
wwww.vam.ac.uk

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Joubert, Fabienne
Professeur d'Histoire de l'Art du Moyen ge
Universit de Paris IV-Sorbonne, Centre Andr Chastel, INHA Carr Colbert
2, rue Vivienne, 75950 Paris
tel. 01 47 03 84 72
www.paris4.sorbonne.fr

>> Recherches sur les peintres du Moyen ge impliqus dans l'laboration des patrons de tapisserie, entre autres.

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Karafel, Lorraine
12 East 95th Street, Apt. 6, New York, NY 10128 USA
LKarafel@gmail.com; LKarafel@aol.com
Lecturer, Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt M.A. Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design
Cooper-Hewitt, The National Design Museum, 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128 USA
KarafelL@newschool.edu

Current research: Raphael’s tapestries for the Vatican Palace; grotesque tapestries in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century; relationships between tapestries and painted decorative programs.

Selected Bibliography:
>> Entries. Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence. New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2002.
>> "Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor" in Filo Forme, 6:15, Spring 2008, pp. 20-26.
>> "Le Retour de l'Age d'Or: les tapisseries à l'antique de Raphael commandées pour le pape Léon X"; in: Art Sacré, Cahiers de Rencontre avec le Patrimonine religieux, Tapiseries et broderies: Relectures des mythes antiques et iconographie chrétienne, Actes du Colloque d’Angers (4-6 October 2007), 2009, pp. 28-39.
>> Raphael’s ‘all’antica’ Tapestries for Pope Leo X: Art, Culture, and Politics in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome, Ph.D. dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2010.
>> “Site Specific?: Raphael’s all’antica Tapestries for Pope Leo X”, in Unfolding the Textile Medium in Early Modern Art and Literautre, ed.: Tristan Weddigen, Mann Verlag, Emsdetten/Berlin (forthcoming 2010).


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Kist, Stefan
Christie's

>> Responsible for appraising, cataloguing and researching all tapestries that Christie's sells.

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Knothe, Florian
Annette Kade Research Fellow, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
florian.knothe@metmuseum.org

>> PhD research: The Manufacture de meubles de la couronne aux Gobelins under Louis XIV: a Social, Political and Cultural History (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London).


 

Lekhovich, Tatiana
Curator of Textiles, Dept of West European Art, The State Hermitage Museum
34 Dvortsovaya Embankment, St. Petersburg 190000, Russia

tel. 7(812) 110 96 17 / fax 7(812) 312 19 94

>> European tapestries in the Hermitage.
>> 2001 Conservation of the Death, Burial and assumption of the Virgin, from the Life of the Virgin and Christ set (Flanders or France, early 16th century) at De Wit's (Belgium).

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Mankin, Urve
Tallinn City Museum, Vene 17, 10123 Tallinn, Estonia
tel. +372 6444052 / fax +372 6444574

>> Research on the Enghien tapestries that were owned (and commissioned?) by the Tallinn Town Council in 1547; 2 pieces from the Life of King Solomon and 5 Verdures that are now in the collection of the Tallinn City Museum.

>> Curator of the exhibition Low Sky, Wide Horizon. The Arts of the Low Countries in Estonia that will be held in the Tallinn City Museum from 17.09.2004 until 17.04.2005.

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Meoni, Lucia
Independent Scholar
Honorary Inspector of Soprintendenza Speciale Polo Museale Fiorentino
Via Santo Spirito 20, 50125 Firenze, Italy
tel./fax +39 055216353

>> Deadline Winter 2005: Gli arazzi nei musei fiorentini. La collezione medicea. Catalogo completo. II, La manifattura all'epoca di Ferdinando II (1621-1670).
This second volume of the Florentine Tapestry Collection concerns the production of the Medici manufactory during the reign of Grand Duke Ferdinand II. From 1621 to 1629 a Flemish tapestry weaver, Iacopo van Asselt, directed the Florentine factory. The Story of Samson was the most important series of this period. After Van Asselt's death the workshop was split up. One shop was directed by the French Pietro Fvre, who introduced "haute lisse" tapestry weaving into Florence. The other shop was ran successively by Pietro van Asselt and his brother Bernardino. Most tapestries of this period were produced for the decoration of the Pitti Palace (See also publications Meoni 2001 and 2002).

>> Gli arazzi nei musei fiorentini. La collezione fiorentina. Catalogo completo. III, La manifattura da Cosimo III a Gian Gastone (1670-1737) e gli anni lorenesi (1738-1747).
One of the most important series produced in this period was the Four Parts of the World woven by Leonardo Bernini and Vittorio Demignot.

>> Gli arazzi nei musei fiorentini. La collezione fiorentina. Catalogo completo. IV, Il collezionismo e le donazioni. Gli arazzi fiamminghi e francesi.
This fourth volume will survey the Flemish and French tapestries (16th-18th centuries) that were bought or gifted. These pieces include Flemish Genesis and Valois sets and Gobelins pieces such as Le Brun's Elements (editio princeps), Playing Children and the Triumph of the Gods.

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Mertens, Wim
PhD-student, Institue for Art History, Leyden University
Free-lance researcher/Visiting lecturer Royal Academy for Fine Arts Antwerp
Belgilei 184, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium
tel./fax +32 (0)3 239 00 52

>> Phd Thesis, Institute for Art History, Leyden University Furniture Tapestries in France and the Netherlands and their manufacture from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Director: Ms. Prof. dr. C. Willemyn Fock.

>> Preparation of a new textile project for the Antwerp Museums (City and Province), in co-operation with Frieda Sorber, curator Modemuseum Antwerp: Catalogue of the interior textiles, including the tapestries and furniture tapestries. Provisional starting date of the project: Spring 2005.

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Mulherron, Jamie

>> Doctoral paper: Et in arcadia ludo: the games of shepherds and shepherdesses in tapestry and illuminated manuscripts 1450-1550 (University College London, 2001). This concerns bergerie scenes on so-called 'millefleur' tapestries in relation to illuminated manuscripts and literature in the late medieval period.

>> PhD Dissertation: Jacques and Claudine Stella's Pastorales and Jeux et plaisirs de l'enfance: the Production and Use of Printed Design (University College London, 2006). A chapter of the thesis deals with the use of scenes from Stella's 'Pastorales' for a tenture produced at Aubusson in the period 1668-1720. It well known that a dance hanging (commonly called 'Le Branle') made at Aubusson used Stella's print but I have gathered new information on many other subjects also taken from Stella's 'Pastorales'.


 

Niekrasz, Carmen
carmen.niekrasz@gmail.com

Dissertation (Northwestern University, 2007):
Woven theaters of nature: Flemish tapestry and natural history, 1550-1600
Free online version: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#abstract?dispub=3284161

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Paredes, Cecilia
8, rue major Brck
1170 Bruxelles

>> Ph.D. dissertation (March, 2005): Vertumne et Pomone. Une fable et son dcor dans quatre tentures tisses d'or. L'tude porte sur quatre ensembles de tapisseries que se partagent actuellement le Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienne, la Fondation Gulbenkian Lisbonne et les collections du Patrimonio National Madrid. Chaque srie illustre la fable de Vertumne et Pomone issue des Mtamorphoses d'Ovide dans un somptueux thtre de pierre et de verdure. Tisses Bruxelles vers 1545, les tapisseries racontent en neuf pisodes les transformations de Vertumne, le dieu des saisons, en vue d'approcher et de sduire Pomone, desse des vergers. A travers l'exploration des composantes historiques, formelles et iconographiques des ensembles tisses, la thse aborde l'art de tapisserie comme une forme d'expression qu'il s'agit de situer dans l'histoire artistique et culturelle des Pays-Bas mridionaux l'aube de la seconde moiti du XVIe sicle.


 

Patrizi, Florence
10, via Pompeo Magno, 00192 Rome, Italy
tel. +39 06 32 12 883 / fax +39 06 32 30 004

>> Andrea Doria's Medallion Months series. Interpretation, attribution and dating (Laurea Dissertation, Rome University La Sapienza, 2000-2001).

>> Main research: the Roman private collections of tapestries, XVIth-XVIIIth centuries (excluding the Barberini and Farnese collections which have already been studied). This project includes the article on Smiramis (see bibliography), a study of the Odescalchi collection (from Queen Christine of Sweden to the XVIIIth century), and research in the Aldobrandini archives. In addition, tapestries that are now in various houses and palaces are included in this project.

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Piwocka, Magdalena
Zamek Krlewski na Wawelu / The Wawel Royal Castle
Wawel 5, 31-001 Krakw, Polska/Poland
Head of Department of Textiles
Phone: 0048 12 422 51 55, extension #274; Fax: 0048 12 422 19 50
magdalena.piwocka @ wawel.org.pl

>> Tapestries of Sigismond Augustus (1520-1572), King of Poland (1548-1572). Sources of inspiration. Two main groups of problems:
1. Crosscurrents of Italian and Flemish Art in the 16th century. Antique sculpture and Roman Renaissance in the mirror of cartoons of the Wawel tapestries (the biblical series by Michiel Coxcie and the grotesques tapestries by an anonymous artist).
2. The replicas and repetitions of the Wawel tapestries (16th to 18th century); the versions of the biblical series (Adam and Eve, Story of Noah, Tower of Babel), verdures with animals, grotesque tapestries.

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Probst, Gisela
Ph.D student, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Stuttgart
Menzelstr. 81, D 70 192 Stuttgart, Germany
gpunktprobst@t-online.de

>>The choir tapestries of St. Adelphe in Neuwiller-lès-Saverne, Alsace, France
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Gereon Beuckers (Universität Kiel, Institut für Kunstgeschichte).
The four woven panels of the choir tapestries of Saint Adelphe formerly adorned the choir of the collegiate church in Neuwiller/Neuweiler near Saverne. With a total length of 20m the picture-sequence of these well preserved tapestries figures scenes of the life of Saint Adelphe, who had been bishop of Metz, as well as the history of his relics. Up to now the positions of scholars concerning the date of origin and the identification of the tapestries’ benefactor differ considerably (more then 3 decades). Moreover a profound analysis of the panels’ iconology and its relation to the preserved hagiographical texts (9th–15th century) is still missing as well as a discussion of the tapestries’ artistic style. By the analysis of the historical context (based on archival sources) and the close study of the different levels of content it is possible to prove the patronage of Ludwig von Lichtenberg (†1471), and thereby the time around 1468/70 as their date of origin. This dating is also confirmed by the identification of the coat of arms, displayed on the tapestries, as well as by their artistic context in Upper Rhine region. By the confirmation of the panels’ early date of origin it is possible to reveal and understand further important intentions of the artistic concept. The tapestries are the first and the main objects of an artistic ensemble, donated to the collegiate church of Saint Adelphe by the Lichtenberg-family. In my dissertation this prominent ensemble, which can be related to the extinction of the Lichtenberg-dynasty, is analysed under historical and artistic aspects for the very first time.

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Ramirez Ruiz, Victoria
PhD-student, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Director: Jesus Cantera, Co-Director: Guy Delmarcel

>> Tapicerias flamencas coleccionadas por los nobles espaoles bajo el reinado de los Austrias (1585-1715)

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Rapp Buri, Anna
Mhlenberg 20, 4052 Basel, Switzerland
tel./fax 0041 61 272 56 71

>> Western Tapestries of the 15th century.

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Schmitz-von Ledebur, Katja
Curator of Tapestries and Textiles
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Burgring 5, 1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 1 52524-387 / fax +43 1 52524-555

>> Catalogue: The “highlights” of the tapestry collection from the 16th to the 18th century, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

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Smit, Hillie
Matrozenhof 57, 1018 ZP Amsterdam, The Netherlands
hillie-smit@tele2.nl

>> From 1990 onwards: Dissertation Research Project on Tapestry in Italy, c. 1390-1520, under the supervision of Prof.dr. C.W. Fock, Leiden University, and in collaboration with the Dutch Art History Institute (NIKI) in Florence.

>> 1996-1997: Repertory of Tapestries in Public Collections in Italy, especially in the Veneto region, at the Dutch Art History Institute (NIKI) in Florence.

>> 1996, 1997, 2001: Research on 19th century interiors in Amsterdam with tapestries woven by the Braqueni firm in Aubusson and Paris, for the Amsterdam Historical Museum.

>> 1998-2000: Catalogue of the tapestry collection, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, in collaboration with Drs. Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis, Curator of Textiles of the Rijksmusuem (published in 2004).

>> 2001-2005: Corpus Wandtapijten in Nederland; an inventory of tapestries in public collections in the Netherlands, at the University of Leiden, School of Art History, Department of Applied Arts, under the supervision of Prof. dr. C.W. Fock.

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Stucky-Schrer, Monica
St. Alban-tal 41, 4052 Basel, Switzerland
tel. +41-61-2611774

>> Western Tapestries of the 15th century.

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Thurman, Christa C. Mayer
The Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles and Textile Conservator
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill. 60603-6110
tel. 312-443-3969 / fax 312-443-0849

>> European Tapestries in The Art Institute of Chicago.

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Vittet, Jean
Inspecteur des collections du Mobilier national, chargé du fonds des tapisseries et modèles anciens du Mobilier national (avant 1950).
Mobilier national
1, rue Berbier-du-Mets, 75013 Paris-France
jean.vittet@culture.gouv.fr

>> Les collections royales françaises de tapisseries depuis la fin du Moyen Age jusqu'au XIXe siècle; l'histoire des manufactures des Gobelins et de Beauvais. Dernière publication, en collaboration avec Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée: La Collection de tapisseries de Louis XIV, Dijon, éditions Faton, 2010.

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Walker, Dean (d. 2005)
The Henry P. McIlhenny Senior Curator of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
Philadelphia Museum of Art
P.O.Box 7646, Philadelphia, PA 19101-7646
tel. 215 684 7691 / fax 215 236-5662

>> Various articles and catalogues regarding European sculpture and decorative arts. Regarding tapestries, c. 1992, unpublished revised basic catalogue information for the PMA's approximately 115 European tapestries. From 1992-95, curatorial superviser for the restoration of 13 tapestries, late 15th-18th century, as part of a comprehensive reinstallation of the Museum's collection of European art 1200-1900.

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Weddigen, Tristan
Institut fr Kunstgeschichte, Universitt Bern
Hodlerstrasse 8, 3011 Bern, Switzerland
www.ikg.unibe.ch
tel. +41-31-6314728 / fax +41-31-6313907 / mobile +41-76-5881576

>> Raphael's bed of paraments for Leo X. Part of my dissertation Raffaels Papageizimmer. Raumfunktion und Dekoration im Vatikanpalast der Renaissance (Berlin, Technische Universitt, 2001) concerning the history, functions and iconography of the ceremonial robing bed hung with tapestries.

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Wilson, Katherine
University of Glasgow, AHRB funded for Phd.
tel. 07789644659

>> Tapestries (domestic and dynastic) in the Low Countries in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Sources to be exploited: ducal and municipal accounts; wills. Themes of Research: gift-giving, consumerism, material culture. The research is particularly but not exclusively concerned with the tapestries now preserved in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow.

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Wyld, Helen
Paul Mellon Tapestry Research Curator, The National Trust
32 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AB
helen.wyld@nationaltrust.org.uk

>> A three-year project (beginning March 2010) funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art to catalogue the most important aspects of the National Trust's tapestry collection, which includes nearly 700 tapestries in 55 properties. This research will form the basis of a publication exploring tapestry patronage in Britain in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and brief details and images of the tapestries will eventually be available via the National Trust's new Collections Management System.

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You, Yao-Fen
Assistant Curator of European Sculpture & Decorative Arts, European Art
The Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202
T: +1 313 833-3832 / F: +1 313 833-7881
yyou@dia.org

>> Catalogue of the Detroit Institute of Arts’s collection of Flemish tapestries

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Adelson

Bauer - Bertrand - Bremer-David

Brosens - Brun - Buchanan

Caen - Campbell - Cleland

Collins - Coquery

Delmarcel - De Meter - Dimitroff

Ebel - Elias-Beaumont

Forti Grazzini

Garcia Calvo

Hefford - Herrero Carretero - Heym

Hollestelle - Hubach - Humphrey

Joubert

Karafel - Kist - Knothe

Lekhovich

Mankin - Meoni - Mertens

Mulherron - Niekrasz

Paredes - Patrizi - Piwocka

Probst - Ramirez - Rapp Buri

Schmitz-von Ledebur - Smit

Stucky-Schürer

Thurman - Vittet

Walker - Weddigen - Wilson

Wyld - You