The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Tapestry Book, by Helen Churchill Candee

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: The Tapestry Book

Author: Helen Churchill Candee

Release Date: July 30, 2008 [EBook #26151]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TAPESTRY BOOK ***

Produced by Eileen Gormly, Alicia Williams (who did the
scanning, image prep, and OCR), Sam W. and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

THE
TAPESTRY
BOOK

BY

HELEN CHURCHILL CANDEE

AUTHOR OF "DECORATIVE STYLES AND PERIODS"

_WITH FOUR PLATES IN COLOUR AND NINETY-NINE
ILLUSTRATIONS IN BLACK-AND-WHITE_

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
MCMXII

[Illustration: HERSE AND MERCURY

Renaissance Brussels Tapestry, Italian Cartoon. W. de Pannemaker,
weaver.

Collection of George Blumenthal, Esq., New York]

_Copyright, 1912,
by_ FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian_

_October, 1912_

TO
TWO CERTAIN BYZANTINE MADONNAS
AND THEIR OWNERS

AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Modesty so dominates the staff in art museums that I am requested not
to make mention of those officers who have helped me with friendly
courtesy and efficiency. To the officers and assistants at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago,
the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Print Department in the
Library of Congress in Washington, indebtedness is here publicly
acknowledged with the regret that I may not speak of individuals.
Photographs of tapestries are credited to Messrs. A. Giraudon, Paris;
J. Laurent, Madrid; Alinari, Florence; Wm. Baumgarten, and Albert
Herter, New York, and to those private collectors whose names are
mentioned on the plates.

H. C. C.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I A FOREWORD 1