European Post-medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

European Post-medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Edith Appleton Standen
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1985
Genre: Tapestry
ISBN: 0870994069

Tapestry making flourished in the major centers of western Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Thousands of tapestries were woven as special commissions for church, crown, and nobility. This publication is a comprehensive catalogue of the Museum's collection of tapestries and allied works made after the Middle Ages.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.