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Textiles
Millefleurs Tapestry
French artist, (active )
French artist
France
Primary
73 x 50 in. (185.4 x 127 cm)
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Wool
Wool
French; probably made in Bruges
ca. 1530-1540
1530
1540
1400-1600, birds, flowers in art, Renaissance & Baroque, tapestry, textiles
Textiles
1955.56
item
Memorial Art Gallery
1/22/2001
55.56SL1
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full
2 x 2
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55.56SL2
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2 x 2
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55.56DI1
digital image
full
2 x 2
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55.56DI2
digital image
detail
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55.56DI3
digital image
detail
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55.56SL2
slide
detail-cropped
2 x 2
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55.56SL3
slide
detail-bird
2 x 2
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55.56DI4
digital image
overall
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Textiles
Tapestry: Battle of the Animals
Flemish artist
Flemish artist
Flanders
Primary
119 x 199 1/2 in. (302.3 x 506.7 cm)
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Wool
Wool
ca. 1580
1575
1585
1400-1600, animals in art, tapestry
Textiles
Battle of the Animals is a lavish, action-packed, and vibrant Renaissance tapestry that was made in Flanders during the 1580s. The foreground teems with exotic animals, both real and fantastic. At the lower left, an ocelot stalks his prey; at the center, a large red hunting dog wearing a jeweled collar snatches a water fowl from a stream. An ostrich surrounded by a variety of reptilian creatures pecks at flora on the stream bank; a unicorn stands nearby.
In the background, hunters and soldiers with their dogs race through the wooded landscape. Some are hunting wild game; others seem to be chasing each other. A rabbit, perhaps symbolizing fertility, sits in the crook of the tree at the center mid-ground. A castle and farmstead are seen in the distance.
Even though usually related by theme, the borders of tapestries were often designed separately from the center portion. In both the left and right lower corners of this border, Diana, the goddess of the hunt, is shown with her dog. The remaining areas are filled with Renaissance ornament, grotesques, satyrs, and animal-headed musicians.
For its wealthy Renaissance owner, Battle of the Animals served as decoration as well as indoor theater. Scenes of animal combat would have been familiar to the tapestry's audiences, which would have seen them as both allegory and representative of live entertainment at court. The educated classes of Renaissance society would have known the more exotic species through illustrations and the private zoos, or "game parks," of the highest nobility.
The conservation treatment of Battle of the Animals was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.
1926.107
item
Memorial Art Gallery
5/12/2001
26.107R1.A1
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26.107DI1
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26.107DI10
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glossy
Detail central portion
8 x 10
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26.107DI#13
digital image
6/18/2013
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26.107DI#14
digital image
Detail
6/18/2013
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26.107DI#15
digital image
Detail
6/18/2013
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26.107DI#16
digital image
Detail
6/18/2013
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digital image
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6/18/2013
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digital image
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6/18/2013
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26.107DI#19
digital image
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6/18/2013
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26.107DI#20
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6/18/2013
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Textiles
Tapestry: Trellised Garden with Animals
Workshop of Wilhelm de Pannemaker, active 1535-1578
Pannemaker, Wilhelm de
Flanders
Male
147 x 182 in. (373.4 x 462.3 cm)
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Wool
Wool
ca. 1565-1575
1565
1575
1400-1600, birds, Renaissance & Baroque, tapestry, textiles
Textiles
1931.15
item
Memorial Art Gallery
5/12/2001
31.15SL1
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full in Fountain Court
2 x 2
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31.15SL2
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detail- hare
2 x 2
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31.15SL3
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detail- Lion
2 x 2
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31.15DI1
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Detail
2 x 2
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31.15DI2
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31.15DI#4
digital image
2/24/2011
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31.15DI#5
digital image
Detail
4/22/2011
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31.15DI#6
digital image
Detail
4/22/2011
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31.15DI#7
digital image
Detail
4/22/2011
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31.15DI#8
digital image
Detail
4/22/2011
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31.15DI#9
digital image
Detail
4/22/2011
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31.15DI#10
digital image
Detail
4/22/2011
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31.15DI#11
digital image
Detail
4/22/2011
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/31.15_A11.jpg
31.15DI#12
digital image
Detail
4/22/2011
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/31.15_A12.jpg
Textiles
Tapestry: Nativity of the Christ Child
Flemish artist
Flemish artist
Flanders
Primary
78 x 96 in. (198.1 x 243.8 cm)
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Wool
Wool
16th century
1500
1599
tapestry
Textiles
1979.50
item
Memorial Art Gallery
5/12/2001
79.50DI1
digital image
overall
00/00/00
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79.50DI#2
digital image
6/18/2013
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/79.50_A2.jpg
79.50DI#3
digital image
Detail
6/18/2013
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/Conservation photos/79.50/jpg/79.50_A2.jpg
79.50DI#4
digital image
Detail
6/18/2013
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/Conservation photos/79.50/jpg/79.50_A3.jpg
Textiles
Tapestry: Musical Game Park
Flemish artist
Flemish artist
Flanders
Primary
132 x 100 in. (335.3 x 254 cm)
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overall
overall
Wool
Wool
1500-1599
1500
1599
tapestry
Textiles
2023.15
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/2/2005
T238DI#1
digital image
overall
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T238DI#2
digital image
T238_detail6.jpg
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T238DI#3
digital image
T238_detail1.jpg
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T238DI#4
digital image
T238_detail2.jpg
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T238DI#5
digital image
T238_detail3.jpg
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T238DI#6
digital image
T238_detail4.jpg
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T238DI#7
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T238_detail5.jpg
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