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Renaissance Pictorial Art in Tapestry

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Renaissance tapestry, on the other hand evolved later on with completely opposite views.

The purpose of Gothic pictorial art in hand-woven tapestry art was to tell the story beautifully and effectively, but in all cases to tell the story at any expense.

The purpose of Renaissance pictorial art in woven tapestry was to produce illusions of what reality should be.

It was actually more intellectual, more abstract, and more scientific with perfection of form, precision of method, and creative grandeur as its objective for the viewer.

The artist Raphael and his Renaissance School of Ancient Roman Art, in actuality, gave rise to the Renaissance tapestry art style in the early sixteenth century.

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The Period of Darkness and the Medieval Mystery of Tapestry

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Between the hand-woven tapestry art of classical antiquity and that of the Thirteenth century however, a long period of darkness and artistic void intervened in western culture, and for over a thousand years weavers were content to leave the marking of large wall paintings to artists and embroiderers.

Then, in the early Thirteenth and Fourteenth century, Gothic art appeared in woven tapestry art with it’s unique form of religious mystery and romance to fascinate the viewer.

Their hand-woven tapestry art was intensely personal, intensely human, and overall intensely spiritual. The tapestry art created at that time was the work of men permeated with religious consciousness and with the warm comprehension of the omnipresence of their God.

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A Literary Expression

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Woven tapestry art is one of the most effective forms of literary expression the world has ever known.

Through the use of this unique art form, the stories of Homer’s Odyssey and Illiad were told and made vivid to the ancient Greeks. Even the stories of Virgil’s Anedia and Ovid’s metamorphoses were made vivid to the Roamans through the use of these woven art pieces.

In fact, woven tapestry art has vividly told the stories of the Greeks, Romans, medieval, and the Renaissance period as well as the Old & New Testament.

Countless heroes and nobility have owned hand-woven tapestry art in France, England, Germany, and Italy from ancient times to more recently throughout the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth centuries.

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Sandra Day O’Connor

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone, and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.”