Identifier: decorativetextil1918hunt (find matches)
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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ntemporary ruler of the Netherlands, Charles, and his brother Ferdinand. GIULIO ROMANO The two most prolific tapestry designers of the Renaissance were the Italian Giulio Romano, who was Raphaels favourite pupil, and the Fleming Bernard van Orley, who is said to have also worked in Raphaels studio. The Scipio designs created by Giulio Romano in illustration of Livys History of Rome were wonderfully popular, and were not only themselves reproduced with more or less fidelity in tapestry during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but also inspired a host of other Scipio tapestries along similar lines. Parts of the story that had seemed neglected or treated briefly in Giulio Romanos designs, were expanded and developed into complete stories. Giulio Romanos designs pictured scenes from the second Punic War between the Carthaginians and the Romans (B. C. 218 to 202) in which Publius Cornelius Scipio, called Africanus because of his victories in Africa, won the empire of the world for the Romans. 275
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RENAISSANCE TAPESTRIES By some delightful turn of Fortunes wheel, part of the finest set of Scipio tapestries with which I am acquainted is now in New York, recently brought here from Madrid, where others of the set still remain. The set is Early Renaissance in every detail of design and execution and all the tapestries of the set are luxuriantly rich with gold, inserted with marvellous skill in plain and basket and couched weave, the last producing in the robes brocaded effects that are incomparably magnificent. These tapestries are in every way equal to the greatest tapestrie sof the period, the Acts of the Apostles sets at the Vatican and in the Royal Spanish collection; the Abraham sets at Hampton Court, in the Imperial Austrian collection, and in the Royal Spanish collection; the Moses set in the Imperial Austrian collection; the Mercury and Herse tapestries in the possession of the Spanish Duchess de Denia, and of Mr. George Blumenthal. An extraordinary fact about the four tapestries of this

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