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Vertumnus and Pomona: Vertumnus transformed into a pruner. ca. 1550 (tapestry)

CUL4906145 Vertumnus and Pomona: Vertumnus transformed into a pruner. ca. 1550 (tapestry) by Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (1502-50); (add.info.: by COECKE VAN AELST, Pieter (1502-1550)
Manufactured in Brussels in gold, wool and silk. Design and models by the circle of Pieter Coecke Van Aelst and Leonard Thiry. Scene from the Ovid's Metamorphoses (XIV, 647). Detail of the garden with the Three Graces
Work influenced by " The Dream of Poliphilo" whose publication in Venice by the printer Aldus Manutius was accompanied by printings which illustrated marvellous architectural garden settings. Flemish art. Tapestry. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Aranjuez. Royal Palace of Aranjuez); Photo © Maeyaert/AIC

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Pygmalion, from Stories from Ovid, Antwerp, c. 1675. Creator: Unknown

Pygmalion, from Stories from Ovid, Antwerp, c. 1675. Pygmalion the sculptor carves the statue with which he will fall in love. Woven at the Wauters workshop, after a design probably by Daniel Janssens

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Lucretia and her handmaids spinning, 1537-45. Creator: Antonio Fantuzzi

Lucretia and her handmaids spinning, 1537-45. [...Lucretia, before whose bed were baskets full of soft wool. By a dim light the handmaids were spinning their allotted stints of yarn. Amongst them the lady spoke on accents soft: "Haste ye now, haste, my girls! The cloak our hands have wrought must to your master be instantly dispatched."]

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