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Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and (14783202592)
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Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Embroidery Tapestry Textile fabrics Lace and lace making Wallpaper Decoration and ornament
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks company
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
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ed is shown by a letter datedFebruary 26, 1626, from Rubens dunning M. Valaves for money dueon designs of the Story of Constantine. In the inventory made at thedeath of Planche (Planken), these are described as: Twelve smalldesigns painted in oil on wood, from the hand of Peter Paul Rubens,representing the story of Constantine. The designs were wovenagain and again, and there are several examples of each in the FrenchNational collection. Another set for which the Early Gobelins isfamous is the Story of Artemisia, originated to celebrate the widow-hood of Catherine de Medicis, wife of Henri II, but adapted andgiven new borders to comfort Marie de Medicis and Anne dAutriche,wives of Henri IV and Louis XIII, in their similar bereavements. After the death of Francois de la Planche, his son Raphael drewout his interest, and set up a rival establishment in the FaubourgSaint Germain. Twenty years later another low-warp plant withFlemish weavers was established by Foucquet at Maincy, near his
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O (3i-l = PQ >> J 00 ^& N a cS «-§ Ho \ * i-h 3 GOBELINS, BEAUVAIS, MORTLAKE TAPESTRIES wonderful estate Vaux-le-Vicomte. These three low-warp plants,together with the ancient but smaller high-warp ones of the Triniteand the Louvre, formed the nucleus of the Royal Furniture Factoryof the Crown formally established by royal decree at the Gobelins in1667, with Charles Lebrun, who had previously been the unfortunateFoucquets decorator and painter, as art director. LOUIS XIV AND LEBRUN The organisation of the Gobelins, from 1662 to 1667, owed every-thing to the energetic care and forethought of Louis XIVs greatminister, Colbert. He was the moving spirit behind it all, and he sawthat the sinews of art in the form of money were not lacking. Theworkmen received quarters on the premises, together with the smallgardens that are still one of the attractions tending to reconcile themto small wages. The different shop managers worked each on his ownaccount. The Crown supplied
By the last decades of the 16th century, the refined Mannerism style had ceased to be an effective means of religious art expression. Catholic Church fought against Protestant Reformation to re-establish its dominance in European art by infusing Renaissance aesthetics enhanced by a new exuberant extravagance and penchant for the ornate. The new style was coined Baroque and roughly coincides with the 17th century. Baroque emphasizes dramatic motion, clear, easily interpreted grandeur, sensuous richness, drama, dynamism, movement, tension, emotional exuberance, and details, and often defined as being bizarre, or uneven. The term Baroque likely derived from the Italian word barocco, used by earlier scholars to name an obstacle in schematic logic to denote a contorted idea or involuted process of thought. Another possible source is the Portuguese word barroco (Spanish barrueco), used to describe an irregular or imperfectly shaped pearl, and this usage still survives in the jeweler’s term baroque pearl. Baroque spread across Europe led by the Pope in Rome and powerful religious orders as well as Catholic monarchs to Northern Italy, France, Spain, Flanders, Portugal, Austria, southern Germany, and colonial South America.
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