Campbell (Thomas P.), born 1962; Cleland (Elizabeth A.H.), editors

(26 cm), (6) 359 (1) pp., with 172 colour and 70 black & white illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Papers by Koenraad Brosens (Tapestry production. New light on the Brussels Raes workshop and Rubens’s Achilles series), Isabelle Denis (A new look at the Story of Coriolanus), Jean Vittet (Charles de Comans’s post-mortem inventory, 1635), Pascal-François Bertrand (A question of scale: was it necessary to weave Poussin’s paintings?), Hanns Hubach (Patronage. Tales from the tapestry collection of Elector Palatine Frederick V and Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter King and Queen), Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis (Mannerist, Baroque, and classicist: narrative tapestries and related paintings in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holland), Nello Forti Grazzini (On the tapestries in seventeenth-century Milan: some new findings), Ingrid De Meûter (An altar frontal for the Jesuit church in Rome after an unknown design by Rubens), James G. Harper (The sun also riseth: the Barberini Apollo series as an allegory of rise, fall, and return), Florence Patrizi (Tapestries in the Colonna collection), Concha Herrero Carretero (Tapestries for court and ecclesiastical use in seventeenth-century Spain), Guy Delmarcel, Margarita García Calvo, & Koenraad Brosens (Spanish family pride in Flemish wool and silk: the Moncada family and its baroque tapestry collection), Charissa Bremer-David (The tapestry patronage of Madame de Montespan and her family), Florian Knothe (Tapestry as a medium of propaganda at the court of Louis XIV: display and audience). ¶ Excellent copy.