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2. The Story of Abraham (tapestries) - Wikipedia

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   The Story of Abraham is a set of ten Brussels tapestries depicting stories from the life of the biblical prophet Abraham.They appear to have been designed by Bernaert van Orley initially, but completed by Pieter Coecke van Aelst around 1537, both artists who were leading designers for the Brussels workshops.

3. Holy Grail tapestries - Wikipedia

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   The six original tapestries illustrate the story of the Grail quest as told in Sir Thomas Malory's 1485 book Le Morte d'Arthur.Like other Morris & Co. tapestries, the Holy Grail sequence was a group effort, with overall composition and figures designed by Edward Burne-Jones, heraldry by William Morris, and foreground florals and backgrounds by John Henry Dearle.

4. Scottish royal tapestry collection - Wikipedia

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   Two inventories of 1539 and 1543 list the tapestries of James V. [22] Some of these had belonged to James IV, though Gavin Douglas said that Regent Albany had cut up royal crimson and purple hangings to make clothes for his servants and pages, [23] but many were bought by James V, or were presents from Francis I of France on his marriage to Madeleine of Valois. [24]

5. Raphael Cartoons - Wikipedia

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   The first delivery was in 1517, and seven were displayed in the chapel for Christmas Day in 1519 (then as now, their display was reserved for special occasions). [4] The tapestries were partly destroyed in the Sack of Rome in 1527. As they were made with both gold and silver thread, some were burnt by soldiers during the attack to extract the ...

6. Adoration of the Magi (tapestry) - Wikipedia

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   Large-scale cartoons for the tapestry weavers were created from photographically enlarged panels of Burne-Jones's watercolour. In a letter of 7 September 1886, Morris had suggested that the tapestry's colouration should be "both harmonious and powerful, so that it would not be overpowered" by the chapel's brilliantly coloured stained glass. [7]

7. Tapestry - Wikipedia

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   The Sampul tapestry, woollen wall hanging, 3rd–2nd century BC, Sampul, Ürümqi Xinjiang Museum. The Hestia Tapestry, 6th century, Byzantine Egypt, Dumbarton Oaks Collection. The Cloth of Saint Gereon – early 11th-century, the oldest European tapestry still extant. Tapestry of Creation, 11th-century, Spain. Large needlework hanging with ...