Garden Tapestry
Garden Tapestry
Belgium
c. 1610
Coloured Wools & Silks
The design comprises a double pergola supported by caryatids in the form of satyrs, and figures with flutes and tambourines, leading to an exquisite formal Renaissance garden. The pergola, with caryatid columns, is based on an earlier Flemish design for the famous series of
Metamorphoses of Vertumnus and Pomona, made for the Habsburgs in 1546, today in museum collections in Madrid and Vienna.
Coloured Wools & Silks
Dimensions
320.00cm wide 353.00cm high (125.98 inches wide 138.98 inches high)
Description / Expertise
Hand WovenThe design comprises a double pergola supported by caryatids in the form of satyrs, and figures with flutes and tambourines, leading to an exquisite formal Renaissance garden. The pergola, with caryatid columns, is based on an earlier Flemish design for the famous series of
Metamorphoses of Vertumnus and Pomona, made for the Habsburgs in 1546, today in museum collections in Madrid and Vienna.
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T 020 7930 8451