WHEN Chris and Suzanne Sharp conceived of their Banners of Persuasion tapestry project, the premise was fairly straightforward. “In the Renaissance people would commission an artist to do a ...

Six innovative weavings, made from designs commissioned by Pope Leo X, are on view at the Columbus Museum of Art, alongside nearly 50 other objects which serve to contextualize these works and ...

Before he became the museum’s director, in 2009, Thomas P. Campbell organized a pair of acclaimed exhibitions that sought to move textile arts from the shadows to the center of Renaissance and ...

Tapestry, the Art of Kings Using In the time of Michelangelo, royalty once spent much more on tapestries than on having their portraits painted. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has brought ...

It has been 25 years since the Worcester Art Museum has made the Renaissance tapestry "Last Judgment" available for public view, but that will change on April 23.

Event details about Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries in San Francisco on January 12, 2025 - watch, listen, photos and tickets ...

The tapestries are epic, intricate pieces, spanning up to thirty feet in length and weighing an average of 100 pounds—which begs the question of how, exactly, the museum hangs them.

When we think of the Sistine Chapel, we think automatically of the ceiling frescoes of Michelangelo. More than likely we are unaware that Raphael also created masterpieces for the Sistine Chapel &#… ...

In their subtly lighted temporary home at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the six enormous weavings at the core of “Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries” are feasts ...