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The lost tapestries of the City of ladies : Christine de Pizan's Renaissance legacy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bell, Susan Groag, 1926-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Tapestry, Renaissance.
Christine, > de Pisan, > approximately 1364-approximately 1431. > Livre de la cité des dames > Illustrations.
Women in art.
Europe > Kings and rulers > Art patronage.
Table of Contents:
  • The first clue
  • Christine de Pizan
  • Queen Elizabeth's tapestries
  • Tapestry production in the early Renaissance
  • Margaret of Austria and the Tournai tapestries
  • Anne of Brittany's "Cité des Dames"
  • An eight-panel French set
  • The "Cietie of Dammys" in Scotland
  • The "Citie of Ladies" at the English court
  • Christine de Pizan's legacy to the Renaissance.