Saint Veronica ca. 1525 Possibly after a design by Bernard van Orley Netherlandish Small-scale devotional tapestries like this one were popular among the most elite collections of Europe. One buying trip for twelve such textiles cost Queen Isabella of Castile the equivalent to ten years of the salary she paid the ships master on Christopher Columbuss transatlantic voyage in 1492. A tapestry comparable in size and subject to this one belonged to Isabellas granddaughter, the Habsburg Queen Catherine of Portugal. The sixteenth-century appeal of this tapestry lay in the skill of its weavers—who rendered the folds of Veronicas mantle in silver thread, tackling the challenging effect of watery reflections—and in its compelling design. The life-size Veronica, head overlapping the border, seems to step out of the textile and into our space.[Elizabeth Cleland, 2017. Saint Veronica. Netherlandish, probably Brussels. ca. 1525. Wool, silk, gilded silver metal-wrapped threads (18-21 warps per

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Saint Veronica ca. 1525 Possibly after a design by Bernard van Orley Netherlandish Small-scale devotional tapestries like this one were popular among the most elite collections of Europe. One buying trip for twelve such textiles cost Queen Isabella of Castile the equivalent to ten years of the salary she paid the ships master on Christopher Columbuss transatlantic voyage in 1492. A tapestry comparable in size and subject to this one belonged to Isabellas granddaughter, the Habsburg Queen Catherine of Portugal. The sixteenth-century appeal of this tapestry lay in the skill of its weavers—who rendered the folds of Veronicas mantle in silver thread, tackling the challenging effect of watery reflections—and in its compelling design. The life-size Veronica, head overlapping the border, seems to step out of the textile and into our space.[Elizabeth Cleland, 2017. Saint Veronica. Netherlandish, probably Brussels. ca. 1525. Wool, silk, gilded silver metal-wrapped threads (18-21 warps per

SuperStock offers millions of photos, videos, and stock assets to creatives around the world. This image of Saint Veronica ca. 1525 Possibly after a design by Bernard van Orley Netherlandish Small-scale devotional tapestries like this one were popular among the most elite collections of Europe. One buying trip for twelve such textiles cost Queen Isabella of Castile the equivalent to ten years of the salary she paid the ships master on Christopher Columbuss transatlantic voyage in 1492. A tapestry comparable in size and subject to this one belonged to Isabellas granddaughter, the Habsburg Queen Catherine of Portugal. The sixteenth-century appeal of this tapestry lay in the skill of its weavers—who rendered the folds of Veronicas mantle in silver thread, tackling the challenging effect of watery reflections—and in its compelling design. The life-size Veronica, head overlapping the border, seems to step out of the textile and into our space.[Elizabeth Cleland, 2017. Saint Veronica. Netherlandish, probably Brussels. ca. 1525. Wool, silk, gilded silver metal-wrapped threads (18-21 warps per by Piemags/PL Photography Limited is available for licensing today.

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