European Post-medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Author(s): Edith Appleton Standen, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Pages: 848
• ISBN_10: 0870994069
  ISBN_13: 9780870994067
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Design / Textile & Costume , Travel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest ,

Description:... Tapestry making flourished in the major centers of western Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Thousands of tapestries were woven as special commissions for church, crown, and nobility. This publication is a comprehensive catalogue of the Museum's collection of tapestries and allied works made after the Middle Ages.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.