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Exhibition Review
Festive Decoration: The Splendour of the Saumur Tapestries. Abbaye royale de Fontevraud
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1041-1044
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Reviewer:
Bertrand, Pascal-François (Bertrand, Pascal-François)
Subjects
buildings:
Abbaye royale de Fontevraud, Fontevraud , France
dates:
2010-2019
places:
Saumur
subjects:
Tapestries / Restoration (process) / French decorative art / Renaissance art / Baroque / Cartoons (working drawings) / Workshops (Organisations) / Gobelins Manufactory
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
11. Detail of the Siege of Jersualem from the Vengeance of Our Lord. c.1470. Wool and silk. (Château of Saumur, Collection of the Church of Notre- Dame de Nantilly; courtesy Conservation départementale du patrimoine de Maine-et-Loire; photograph B. Rousseau).
Western art unattributed:
12. Detail of the Judgment of St Peter, from the Life of St Peter. 1542–46. Wool and silk. (Church of Saint- Pierre, Saumur; courtesy Conservation départementale du patrimoine de Maine-et-Loire; photograph B. Rousseau).
Western art unattributed:
13. Installation view of Festive Decoration: The Splendour of the Saumur Tapestries, Abbaye royale de Fontevraud, 2019, showing the tapestry Spring, in three parts, from the Children Gardening series after Charles Le Brun (courtesy Abbaye royale de Fontevraud; photograph L. de Serres).