Symposium held November 20-21, 1976 at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Suzanne Stassevitch
Notes
Gift of Suzanne Stassevitch, August 2022.
Lexicon
Search Terms
tapestry
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Book
Book Details
Author
Anna G. Bennett, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Publisher
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Place Published
City
San Francisco, CA
Date Published
1979
ISBN
0884010317, 9780884010319
LCCN
77091645
Notes
Length: 223
General Notes
Note Type
Contents
Note
I: Medium and materials -- Tapestry: the purposes, form, and function of the medium from its inception until today / Christa C.M. Thurman -- Tapestry wools, ancient to modern / Harold P. Lundgren -- Dyeing techniques of tapestries in the southern Netherlands during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Liliane Masschelein-Kleiner -- II: Conservation and restoration -- The preservation of medieval tapestries / Nobuko Kajitani -- "Bread, brushes, and brooms": aspects of tapestry restoration in England, 1660-1760 / Wendy Hefford -- III: Subjects and history -- The Passion of Christ in medieval tapestries / Larry Salmon -- The triumph of the seven virtues: reconstruction of a Brussels series (ca. 1520-1535) / Geneviève Souchal -- The triumph of the seven virtues and related Brussels tapestries of the early Renaissance / Guy Delmarcel -- Parisian workshops of the seventeenth century / Madeleine Jarry -- The Beauvais manufactory in 1690 / Bertrand Jestaz -- Some Beauvais tapestries related to Berain / Edith A. Standen.
