Grand design : Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance tapestry
Elizabeth A. H. Cleland (Author), Maryan W. Ainsworth (Author), Stijn Alsteens (Author), Nadine Orenstein (Author), Iain Buchanan (Contributor), Guy Delmarcel (Contributor), Nello Forti Grazzini (Contributor), Concha Herrero Carretero (Contributor), Lorraine Karafel (Contributor), Sarah W. Mallory (Contributor), Lucia Meoni (Contributor), Cecilia Paredes (Contributor), Katja Schmitz-von Ledebur (Contributor), Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (Host institution)
"Renowned throughout Renaissance Europe, Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502-1550) produced works for the wealthiest and most important patrons of the time, including Emperor Charles V, Francis I of France, Henry VIII of England, the Habsburgs, and Cosimo de Medici. While he is best known for his magnificent tapestries, he was also a consummate artist in other media, and the output from his workshop included painted altarpieces, as well as designs and cartoons for stained glass. This lavish publication, the first comprehensive volume devoted to this Renaissance master since 1966, introduces Pieter Coecke van Aelst to a contemporary audience and places him among the great artists of the 16th century. New photographs, including fine details, reunite twenty of the splendid Renaissance tapestries made to his designs with some of his finest surviving drawings and panel paintings, while texts by thirteen prominent scholars explore Coecke's art and world. Both a feast for the eyes and an important reappraisal of a great Renaissance master, this important study will stand as the comprehensive volume on a major artist of the Northern Renaissance."--Publisher's website
Print Book, English, 2014
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2014
Exhibition catalogs
x, 401 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 32 cm
9781588395412, 9780300208054, 0300208057, 1588395413
877370078
Recognizing Pieter Coecke van Aelst / Elizabeth Cleland
Timeline: Pieter Coecke van Aelst as a panel painter / Maryan W. Ainsworth
Designing and defining tapestries: the three stages of tapestry production / Sarah W. Mallory
Pieter Coecke van Aelst's drawings for tapestries / Stijn Alsteens
The life of Saint Paul / Guy Delmarcel
Customs and fashions of the Turks / Nadine M. Orenstein
The seven deadly sins / Elizabeth Cleland
The story of Joshua / Iain Buchanan
The story of Abraham / Elizabeth Cleland
The story of Julius Caesar / Lorraine Karafel
The story of Tobias / Stijn Alsteens
The story of Vertumnus and Pomona / Elizabeth Cleland
The triumph of Mordecai / Stijn Alsteens
The Poesia / Cecilia Paredes
The story of the Creation / Lucia Meoni
The conquest of Tunis / Iain Buchanan
Verdures with animals / Nello Forti Grazzini
Epiloque: virtue triumps over death / Elizabeth Cleland
Catalog of an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 8, 2014 - January 11, 2015
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