| Title: | Tapestry |
| Subtitle: | The Mirror of Civilization |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
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| By Phyllis Ackermann |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61719-656-0 |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Publication Date: | 1/2011 |
| From the 1933 edition |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | Hardback, Black, 8.25 x 10.75 in |
| Pages: | 551 |
A history of tapestry, from the origins in late Roman Egypt, briefly through Rome, its revival under Matilda of Quedlinburg, Bayeux and the Norman-English tradition, and a progress through the tapestries of the Court of France, interrupted by a survey of the other tapestries of the world: in Flanders, Holland, Italy, China, the Middle East, and pro-Columbian Mexico and Peru
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
(page 5)
- CONTENTS
(page 7)
- LIST OF PLATES
(page 9)
- CHAPTER I : THE ANCIENT EAST AND THE EGYPTIAN TAPESTRIES
(page 13)
- CHAPTER II : THE EMPIRES OF ROME
(page 42)
- CHAPTER III : THE NORSEMEN AND THEIR DESCENDANTS
(page 63)
- CHAPTER IV : THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
(page 91)
- CHAPTER V : THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY (page 110)
- CHAPTER VI : THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY WEAVERS AND DESIGNERS (page 148)
- CHAPTER VII : THE TAPESTRY OF THE REIGN OF MARGUERITE OF AUSTRIA
(page 163)
- CHAPTER VIII : THE FONTAINEBLEAU LOOMS
(page 183)
- CHAPTER IX : THE FLEMISH RENAISSANCE
(page 201)
- CHAPTER X : CATHERINE DE' MEDICI AND HENRI III
(page 224)
- CHAPTER XI : RUBENS AND THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
(page 241)
- CHAPTER XII : THE LESSER LOOMS
(page 262)
- CHAPTER XIII : THE FAR AND MIDDLE EAST
(page 303)
- CHAPTER XIV : PERU AND MEXICO
(page 316)
- CHAPTER XV : THE PERIOD OF LOUIS XIV
(page 348)
- CHAPTER XVI : THE PERIOD OF LOUIS XV
(page 362)
- CHAPTER XVII : THE TAPESTRIES OF GOYA
(page 381)
- CHAPTER XVIII: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
(page 392)
- APPENDIX I: THE TECHNIQUE AND AESTHETICS OF TAPESTRY
(page 403)
- APPENDIX II:GUILD REGULATIONS
(page 412)
- APPENDIX III:SOME COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS
(page 418)
- NOTES
(page 443)
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
(page 531)
- INDEX
(page 535)
