Landscape with birds tapestry
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Landscape with birds tapestry
c 1700
wool, silk
- Place made
- Ourdenaarde (?), Flanders (Belgium)
- Medium
- wool, silk
- Dimensions
- 286.8 x 349.0 cm
- Credit line
- M.J.M. Carter Collection 1966
- Accession number
- AA800
- Signature and date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Media category
- Textiles
- Collection area
- International decorative arts and design
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WALL LABEL: Landscape with birds tapestry C.1700
Textiles played an important role in Renaissance Europe, and in terms of objects for interior decoration, tapestries and embroideries were often valued more highly than paintings. Large textile works served a dual purpose: they enlivened and decorated rooms but also offered insulation to provide additional warmth in cold, draughty castles and manor houses. During a period of significant royal and aristocratic wealth, tapestries were also a more portable mode of decoration than heavy framed canvases: tapestries could simply be removed, rolled and packed with other household items when the household relocated for the season.
Tansy Curtin, Curator of International Art Pre-1980
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Reimagining the Renaissance
Art Gallery of South Australia, 20 July 2024 – 13 April 2025
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[Journal] Art Gallery of South Australia Newsletter.
Art Gallery of South Australia Newsletter Vol. 6, no. 16 (Sept. 1985)-v. 6, no. 54 (Mar. 1989)