TY - BOOK ID - 14470071 TI - Raphael's tapestries : the grotesques of Leo X PY - 2016 SN - 9780300181999 030018199X PB - New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Tapestry, Renaissance KW - Mythology, Classical, in art. KW - Art and society KW - Mythologie ancienne dans l'art KW - Art et société KW - Themes, motives. KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Raphael, KW - Leo KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Art patronage. KW - grotesques KW - tapestries KW - mythology [literary genre] KW - patronage KW - Applied arts. Arts and crafts KW - Raphael KW - Aelst, van, Pieter, the elder KW - Leo X [Pope] KW - Tapisserie de la Renaissance KW - Thèmes, motifs KW - Art et société KW - Thèmes, motifs KW - Mythology, Classical, in art KW - Renaissance tapestry KW - Themes, motives KW - Sanzio, Raffaele, KW - Raffaello Sanzio, KW - Santi, Raffaello, KW - Sanzio, Raffaello, KW - Raffael, KW - Raffaello, KW - Urbino, Raffaello da, KW - Sanctius, Raphael, KW - Urbinas, Raphael Sanctius, KW - Rafaėlʹ, KW - Raffaele Sanzio, KW - Sanzi, Raffaello, KW - de' Medici, Giovanni KW - de Médicis, Jean KW - Léon KW - Art KW - Art and sociology KW - Society and art KW - Sociology and art KW - Social aspects KW - De' Medici, Giovanni, KW - Leone KW - Medici, Giovanni de', KW - Sanzio, Raffaele KW - Raffaello Sanzio KW - Santi, Raffaello KW - Sanzio, Raffaello KW - Raffael KW - Raffaello KW - Urbino, Raffaello da KW - Sanctius, Raphae, KW - Urbinas, Raphael Sanctius KW - Rafaėlʹ KW - Raffaele Sanzio KW - Sanzi, Raffaello KW - Aelst, van, Pieter [sr.] KW - invloed van antieke kunst UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14470071 AB - Around 1515, Raphael (1483-1520) designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with inventive grotesques. Now lost, these spectacular, grand-scale textiles are reconstructed in Raphael's Tapestries and set among a series of unprecedented decorative projects that Pope Leo commissioned from the artist. Likely produced by the Brussels weaver Pieter van Aelst, the tapestries pioneered a new all'antica style analogous with contemporary painted and sculpted interior programs. Tapestries played a central role at Leo's court, as spectacle and as propaganda, and the Grotesques of Leo X would inform tapestry design for the next three centuries. Their beauty and complexity rivaled those of contemporary painting, and their luxurious materials made them highly prized. With this new study, the Grotesques take their rightful place as Renaissance masterworks and as documents of the fervent humanist culture of early 16th-century Rome. ER -