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The invention of glory : Afonso V and the Pastrana tapestries
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- Creator
- [texts, Miguel Angel de Bunes Ibarra ... and others ; translation, Philip Sutton]
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Madrid : Fundación Carlos de Amberes : Ediciones El Viso, [2011]
- Physical Details
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- 101 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
- ISBNs
- 9788487369698, 8487369693, 9788495241849, 8495241846, 9781555953751, 1555953751
- OCLC
- ocn748424082
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Sept. 18, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012, and at the Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Feb. 5-May 13, 2012; previously shown at 5 European venues.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-101).
- The Pastrana tapestries, war photojournalism of the fifteenth century / Miguel Ángel Aguilar -- The Pastrana tapestries and Portuguese expansion in North Africa / Miguel Ángel de Bunes Ibarra -- Afonso "the African" and his army : the Pastrana tapestries as a visual encyclopedia for the study of arms and armor / Donald J. La Rocca -- The Pastrana tapestries and the Panels of St Vincent : artistic legacy and symbolic memory of the reign of Afonso V of Portugal / Dalila Rodrigues -- Landing at Ashilah -- Seige of Asilah -- Assault on Asilah -- Fall of Tangier -- The conservation of the tapestries at the collegiate church of Pastrana / Yvan Maes De Wit
Subjects
- Afonso V, King of Portugal, 1432-1481 -- Art patronage -- Exhibitions.
- Colegiata de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (Pastrana, Spain) -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
- Pastrana tapestries -- Exhibitions.
- Tapestry, Flemish -- Belgium -- Tournai -- 15th century -- Exhibitions.
- Tapestry, Flemish -- Conservation and restoration -- Belgium -- Mechelen -- Exhibitions.
- Tapestry -- Spain -- Pastrana -- Exhibitions.