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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Karafel, Lorraine (1956-....)
Titre(s) : Raphael's tapestries [Texte imprimé] : the grotesques of Pope Leo X / Lorraine Karafel
Publication : New Haven : Yale university press, [2016]
Description matérielle : ix, 190 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Comprend : The triumph of the arts : Pope Leo X as patron ; "Some tapestries full of grotesques"
: Raphael's designs reconstructed ; Raphael, the Antique, and the Designs for the
grotesques of Leo X ; The return of the Golden Age : image, text, and meaning in
the grotesques of Leo X ; The triumph of the Gods : production, re-editions and related
tapestries
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index
Around 1515, Raphael (1483-1520) designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first
Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and silk, and depicted scenes
from classical mythology with inventive grotesques. Now lost, these spectacular, grand-scale
textiles are reconstructed in Raphael's Tapestries and set among a series of unprecedented
decorative projects that Pope Leo commissioned from the artist. Likely produced by
the Brussels weaver Pieter van Aelst, the tapestries pioneered a new all'antica style
analogous with contemporary painted and sculpted interior programs. Tapestries played
a central role at Leo's court, as spectacle and as propaganda, and the Grotesques
of Leo X would inform tapestry design for the next three centuries. Their beauty and
complexity rivaled those of contemporary painting, and their luxurious materials made
them highly prized. With this new study, the Grotesques take their rightful place
as Renaissance masterworks and as documents of the fervent humanist culture of early
16th-century Rome
Sujet(s) : Raphaël (1483-1520)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-300-18199-9 (rel.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 030018199X (cl) (alk. paper)
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