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November, 1912
THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO
29
Nou) Ready
TAPESTRIES
Their Origin, History and Renaissance
[Ry GEORGE LELAND HUNTER
A splendid volume of 450 pages with 4 extraordinary plates in color, and 147 in
black and white. On this page is reproduced one of the latter.
Square, 8vo. Cloth, $330 net. Postage, 25 cents
THE MIRACULOUS DRAFT
PLATE no. 83. Raphael’s Acts of the Apostles. The Miraculous Draft of Fish, at the Vatican. One of the set of ten woven by
Pieter Van Aelst for Pope Leo X. On account of the narrowness of the spaces they were to fill in the Sistine Chapel, only part
of the set had side borders. The bottom borders are woven imitations of bas relief picturing scenes in the life of Leo X before he
became Pope, and in the life of Saint Paul. The lower part of the left side border of the tapestry illustrated was cut off when
Rome was sacked in 1527, and was later replaced by the coat of arms of Constable Montmorency and by two Latin inscriptions,
the first memorializing the return of part of the set to Pope Julius III by this Constable in 1553, the second the repairing of the
tapestries by Pope Pius VII in 1814 at great expense.
It reads like a story book, looks like a picture book, and at the same time is the
standard reference book °n the subject.
Published by the
JOHN LANE COMPANY
120 West 32d Street New York
THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO
29
Nou) Ready
TAPESTRIES
Their Origin, History and Renaissance
[Ry GEORGE LELAND HUNTER
A splendid volume of 450 pages with 4 extraordinary plates in color, and 147 in
black and white. On this page is reproduced one of the latter.
Square, 8vo. Cloth, $330 net. Postage, 25 cents
THE MIRACULOUS DRAFT
PLATE no. 83. Raphael’s Acts of the Apostles. The Miraculous Draft of Fish, at the Vatican. One of the set of ten woven by
Pieter Van Aelst for Pope Leo X. On account of the narrowness of the spaces they were to fill in the Sistine Chapel, only part
of the set had side borders. The bottom borders are woven imitations of bas relief picturing scenes in the life of Leo X before he
became Pope, and in the life of Saint Paul. The lower part of the left side border of the tapestry illustrated was cut off when
Rome was sacked in 1527, and was later replaced by the coat of arms of Constable Montmorency and by two Latin inscriptions,
the first memorializing the return of part of the set to Pope Julius III by this Constable in 1553, the second the repairing of the
tapestries by Pope Pius VII in 1814 at great expense.
It reads like a story book, looks like a picture book, and at the same time is the
standard reference book °n the subject.
Published by the
JOHN LANE COMPANY
120 West 32d Street New York