Tapestries Author:Mercedes Viale The art of tapestry has perhaps never reached greater heights than it did in the Middle Ages, when a unique combination of aesthetic sensibility and technical skill was achieved by hundreds of weavers working in Fance, Flanders, Switzerland and Germany. No era has been more delightfully portrayed than was the Medieval period by these elegant sc... more »enes of chivalrous knights either on the battlefield or pledging eternal love in flowery glades. The author of this book decribes the rise and decline of European tapestry and tantalizingly leaves us looking into the future with the modern revival led by Jean Lucat.
Very well-illustrated with 70 plates in full-color.