Front and back - Couverture rigide

Muel, Francis

 
9782906344556: Front and back
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 2906344559 ISBN 13 : 9782906344556
Editeur : ASSOCIATION 303, 2000

Synopsis

The Château of Angers is proud to exhibit the Apocalypse Tapestry, the largest and most famous masterpiece of medieval tapestry weaving.

The dazzling and mysterious visions of the Revelation to St John, expressed in the 14th century in monumental images of great plastic beauty, demand admiration. Though the vicissitudes of the centuries have altered this masterpiece somewhat, worldwide interest in it has been boosted by the discovery of the reverse side, hidden under a lining, which has revealed the brightness of its original colours and demonstrated its technical perfection.

This publication contains illustrations of all the scenes, or at least a detail from them, which are exhibited in the gallery of the Château, here shown from the “wrong” side: the negative has been reversed to match the composition on the front. Each caption places the picture in the iconographic and Biblical context of the scene. In the book, a fold-out sections gives the background to the work and, for the first time, a complete colour picture of the front of the six sections of the tapestry, of which more than one hundred metres is still on exhibition.

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Éditeur
ASSOCIATION 303
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
2906344559
ISBN 13 
9782906344556
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
80
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible