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Metz (Mechthild) Unmuße,

Bildteppich um 1470/80

Grand Design’ Showcases Pieter Coecke

Tapestries at the Met - NYT

A Brussels allegorical tapestry of Abundantia, from the Series of the Four Continents and Related Allegories late 17th century after a design by Lodewijk Van Schoor and Pieter Spierinckx

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Woodcutters with Arms of Nicolas Rolin“,

Tapestry (Fragment), Tournai (?),

before 1462,

Wool and Silk, 315×495 cm, Paris,

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 

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This magnificent tapestry is 'Hercules Founding the Olympic Games'

made in Southern Netherlands

c1450,

during long reign of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

The mounted figure of Hercules bears a strong resemblance to portraits of Philip