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Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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give the story of Proserpine,in the Four Seasons. In Spring Ceres bringsProserpine to Minerva: in Summer, Pros-erpine is decorated with /lowers by her play-mates: in Autumn she takes leave of hermother, Ceres; and Winter shows the rape ojProserpine by Pluto, who carries her ojfj tobis dark kingdom. The tapestry thus nar-rates a tale which would otherwise haverequired a series oj four.This is one of a series called The Cano-pies, on account of the arched enframementwhich appears in all as a setting for themain scene. The tapestry is richly inter-woven with gold and silver threads, and thedesign, both for its style and its spirit,could be ascribed to a ;iupi/ of Raphael. An Eighteenth Century French tapestry, oneoj a series of Mythological Scenes, pre-sented to Francis III oj Lorraitie by LouisXV. The scene portray, s Venus, Psyche andAmor, and is a free adaptation in the styleoj the Eighteenth Century oj Raphaelsjamous fresco in the Farnesina, Rome. i i l y 1922 011\ -n 1 ne mceRfiACh.
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tries, when the entire collec- An Eighteenth Century tapestry depicting of this treasure, indeed, sug- i i i a soldiersencampment of toe period . t . .•!•, • i tion was examined by the gested to some utilitarian souls authorities of the new republic it proved to be in Vienna the idea that the tapestries might be very much larger than anyone had imagined, hypothecated in the United States in return for a since it included about one thousand pieces, the loan that would solve Austrias financial problems. quality of which can only be equalled by the But this proposal raised such a storm of opposi- collections in Madrid and Pans. tion among patriotic and art-loving Austrians Art appreciation in Austria suffered no change that it was quickly abandoned. For the present, with the passing of the ancient monarchy and the at least, the world must go to Vienna to see this coming ot the youngrepublic. The au-thorities realizedtheir obligation totheir own people,and to the art worldin general

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