Mission statement

The study of Western tapestry has been booming since the 1980s. Pioneering exhibition catalogues as well as important studies disclosing tapestry collections in both the USA and Europe were published. As a result, the nineteenth-century classification of tapestry as a mere branch of the applied or decorative arts has been proven inaccurate. Art historians now fully recognize that tapestry indeed ranks among the beaux-arts or the fine arts.

Studies in Western Tapestry presents a specific setting for tapestry studies. Thorough analyses of production centres, important tapestry sets, prolific tapestry designers, iconographic themes, and historical collections are published in this series. The studies focus on Western tapestry produced between c. 1400 and 1960.

Editorial Board

Directors

Guy Delmarcel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Koenraad Brosens (F.W.O.-Vlaanderen/Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Advisory Committee

Rotraud Bauer (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
Thomas P. Campbell (New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Nello Forti Grazzini (Milan, Università degli Studi di Milano)
Wendy Hefford (London, Victoria and Albert Museum)
Fabienne Joubert (Paris, Sorbonne-Paris IV)

Publishers

Brepols International Academic Publishers