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Wild Men and Moors; Siege of the Castle of Love; Fraue Minne, the Venus of old German Legend; Lady Venus in her Tent (Roger Sherman Loomis, "The Allegorical Siege in the Art of the Middle Ages" [1]); Detail (9/12), Warp: linen Wefts: wool; tapestry weave, 100 x 490 cm, |
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circa 1400 date QS:P,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 German (probably Strasbourg, Alsace) |
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Source | Charles Potter Kling Fund, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Accession Number: BMFA.54.1431 https://collections.mfa.org/objects/106003. Catalogue entry: Series of scenes (left to right), wild men attacking Moors in castle, wilk men fighting with lion, dragon, and unicorn, and wild men carrying food to wild woman with two children seated at foot of rocks; stylized trees, plants, rocks; stylized trees, plants, rocks; pinkish-red background covered with roses in two shades of pinkish-red, frames by diamond lattice formed by links of chain, blue, darker blue, and white. In lower part of tapestry, right half, a shield divided horizontally, upper half yellow with two red roses with blue conters, lower half black (Blümel, Alsace), same arms appear as manteling on helmet lower center of tapestry. On far right helmet surmounted by ibex horn with mantling red with two white stars (Zorn, Strassburg). Human faces woven without features, which are painted, possibly originally embroidered, some embroidery stitches survive. Weaving finished so back and face almost identical, except for faces. Colors include very dark blue (almost black), several shades of blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, red, and grayish violet. Literature: Rebecca Martin, "Wild Men and Moors in the Castle of Love: The Castle-Siege Tapestries in Nuremberg, Vienna and Boston", Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983 https://openpublishing.psu.edu/ahd/content/wild-men-and-moors-castle-love-castle-siege-tapestries-nuremberg-vienna-and-boston | |||||
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