Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry

Cloth, x, 401 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits; 32 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 8, 2014 to January 11, 2015. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "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. *** CONTENTS: Recognizing Pieter Coecke van Aelst, by Elizabeth Cleland; Timeline: Pieter Coecke van Aelst as a panel painter, by Maryan W. Ainsworth; Designing and defining tapestries: the three stages of tapestry production, by Sarah W. Mallory; Pieter Coecke van Aelst's drawings for tapestries, by Stijn Alsteens; The life of Saint Paul, by Guy Delmarcel; Customs and fashions of the Turks, by Nadine M. Orenstein; The seven deadly sins, by Elizabeth Cleland; The story of Joshua, by Iain Buchanan; The story of Abraham, by Elizabeth Cleland; The story of Julius Caesar, by Lorraine Karafel; The story of Tobias, by Stijn Alsteens; The story of Vertumnus and Pomona, by Elizabeth Cleland; The triumph of Mordecai, by Stijn Alsteens; The Poesia, by Cecilia Paredes; The story of the Creation, by Lucia Meoni; The conquest of Tunis, by Iain Buchanan; Verdures with animals, by Nello Forti Grazzini; Epiloque: virtue triumphs over death, by Elizabeth Cleland. Size: Folio.