The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries are a group of four medieval tapestries, probably woven in Arras, Artois, France, between about 1430 and 1450. The tapestries...
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Unicorn), stored in l'Hôtel de Cluny, Paris. The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, four Flemish tapestries dating from the mid-fifteenth century depict men...
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Hunts of Maximilian (category Tapestries)
Orley drawings. Sets of hunting scenes had long been a popular subject in tapestry, with sets like the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries (1430–1450, V&A), perhaps...
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Graal tapestries are a set of six tapestries depicting scenes from the legend of King Arthur and the quest for the Holy Grail. The tapestries were commissioned...
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surviving European tapestry. A highlight of the collection is the four Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, very rare 15th-century tapestries, woven in the Netherlands...
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the Heroes Tapestries) | South Netherlandish". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 26 November 2023. "The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries". V&A. Retrieved...
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Millefleur (redirect from Millefleur tapestry)
extending right to the top of the picture space. The early Devonshire Hunting Tapestries (1420s) have naturalistic landscape backgrounds, seen from a...
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It is now kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Devonshire Hunting Tapestries woven. 1423: Gentile, Adoration of the Magi 1424: Masaccio,...
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Hunter, in Tapestries; Their Origin, History And Renaissance, 1912, calls it The Star of Bethlehem."The Morris Tapestry Works At Merton". Tapestries; Their...
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Chatsworth House (redirect from Devonshire Collection)
miles (14 km) west of Chesterfield, England. The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has belonged to the Cavendish family since 1549. It stands on the...
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centuries in the Cavendish family and the line of the Earl of Devonshire and the Duke of Devonshire, ownership of the house was transferred to the Treasury...
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The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald (category Tapestries)
the French in 1695 and are now known only from descriptions and from a tapestry copy in the Historical Museum of Bern. The work is thought to have preoccupied...
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sons of Harold in 1069". Report and Transactions. 146. Barnstable: The Devonshire Association: 33–56. ISSN 0309-7994. OCLC 5840886678. Barlow, Frank (1970)...
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Reniseneb Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke Hounds and Jackals The Unicorn Tapestries Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow Kettle Drums Kneeling Bull with Vessel...
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Geographical Reality". Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 148. The Devonshire Association: 89–130. ISSN 0309-7994. Retrieved 9 May...
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style. Boucher participated in all of the genres of the time, designing tapestries, models for porcelain sculpture, set decorations for the Paris Opera and...
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belonged to the painter Peter Lely. In the "rainbow room" are tapestries from the Mortlake Tapestry Works, which was rescued from bankruptcy by Ralph Montagu...
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the tapestry dining room, an inner room of the east side to the east of the Wooton Hall. Aside from the two fine vividly constructed tapestries, one...
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his son a large treasury. Henry VIII spent heavily on luxuries, such as tapestries and palaces, but his peacetime budget was generally satisfactory. The...
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8th (The King's) 9th (East Norfolk) 10th (North Lincoln) 11th (North Devonshire) 12th (East Suffolk) 13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry)...
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The first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire. Germaine de Staël 1766 France, Switzerland Mary...
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American politician (b. 1626) November 23 – William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, English noble (b. 1617) December 10 – Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet...
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