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The Barberini Tapestries. Woven Monuments of Baroque Rome James Gordon Harper; Harper James Gordon Editore: Officina Libraria, 2017 ISBN 10: 8899765316ISBN 13: 9788899765316 Nuovo - Rilegato Condizione: new EUR 125 Quantità: 1 Condizione: new. New York, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, March 21 - June 25, 2017. English Text. Milano, 2017; hardback, pp. 186, col. ill., col. plates, cm 26x31. In its half-century of activity, the Barberini workshop custom-wove designs by some of the most eminent painters of the era, Peter Paul Rubens, Pietro da Cortona, and Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, and decorated the Vatican Palace, the Sistine Chapel, and the Palazzo Barberini. This magnificent exhibition will shed light on these objects as both an aesthetic experience and as cultural artifacts. - Language : English text - Coll. B 54