Harvard Art Museums > 1959.50: Armorial Millefleurs Textile Arts Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Armorial Millefleurs (Unidentified Artist) , 1959.50,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 24, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/214617. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1959.50 People Unidentified Artist Title Armorial Millefleurs Classification Textile Arts Work Type tapestry Date 1513-1540 Places Creation Place: Europe, Belgium, Bruges Culture Flemish Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/214617 Physical Descriptions Medium Textile fibers Provenance Recorded Ownership History Matthäus Lang, Archbishop of Salzburg. Salzburger Museums Carolino Augusteum (now the Salzburg Museum, sold; to [Evaristo Sanz Sagaesta, late 1920]. Mabel Choate, New York and Stockbridge, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1959 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Miss Mabel Choate Accession Year 1959 Object Number 1959.50 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description This armorial tapestry depicts two date palms floating on a mille-fleurs ground (date palms, which grow straight and erect, were an emblem of piety). Halfway between the palm trees is a landscape roundel encircled by a flowering wreath. The landscape shows the town of Salzburg in the valley and two castles on distant mountain tops. In the center of the roundel, ornamental ropes frame two coats of arms, the arms of Salzburg (left) and the arms of Matthäus Lang von Wellenberg, archbishop of Salzburg (right). Lang became cardinal of Salzburg in 1513, and then served as archbishop of Salzburg from 1519 until his 1540 death, thus providing a date range for our tapestry. Several tapestries of this type have been linked to Bruges workshops such as that of the weaver Antoon Segon. Publication History J. Duverger and J. Versyp, "Brugs tapijtwerk in het Paleis van het Brugse Vrije en het belang ervan voor de kennis van de Brugse Tapijtkunst", Album Albert Schouteet (1973), pp.75-84 Jean-Paul Asselberghs, Les tapisseries flamandes aux états-unis d'amérique, Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (Brussels, 1974), p. 15 George Wingfield Digby, Victoria and Albert Museum: the Tapestry Collection, Medieval and Renaissance (London, 1980), pp. 47-48 Candace Adelson, "Florentine and Flemish Tapestries in Giovio's Collection", Atti del Convegno: Paolo Giovio, il rinascimento e la memoria (Como, 1985), pp. 239-259 Guy Delmarcel and Erik Duverger, Bruges et la Tapisserie (Bruges; Mouscron, 1985), p. 195 Adolph S. Cavallo, Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1993), p. 294 Roswitha Juffinger, "Die Millefiori-Tapisserie von Matthäus Lang in den Harvard Art Museums", Zeit des Umbruchs: Salzburg unter Leonhard von Keutschach und Matthäus Lang (1495-1510) (Salzburg, 2020), pp. 455-466, pp. 445-467 Exhibition History The World of the Middle Ages in the Thiebold Schilling Chronicle, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/07/1974 - 11/08/1974 Verification Level This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
