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= Blake Scheib Sandbox =

Current Article Content Sub-headings:

 * Descriptions of Each of the Eight Tapestries
 * Composition and Context
 * The Fêtes
 * People in the Tapestries
 * Conservation and Display

Final Sub-Headings:

 * Descriptions
 * Conflicting Scholarship
 * Design and Construction
 * Composition
 * Themes and Iconography


 * Notable Figures
 * Provenance and Preservation

Planned Additions:

 * Change "Spanish Netherlands" to Burgundian Flanders.
 * Add provenance sub-heading (maybe change "Conservation and Display" to provenance?)
 * Probably given to Christine de Lorraine by her grandmother Christine de' Medici (Bertrand)
 * Inventoried in Florence in 1589 with goods brought from France by Christine de Lorraine (Bertrand)
 * Add design and construction sub-heading (To be divided from current "Composition and Context" subheading)
 * Yates claims that they were woven in Brussels toward the end of the 16th c. (Bertrand)
 * The mark of the city of Brussels is attached to the edge of 6 of the 8 tapestries (Bertrand)
 * Yates claims that they were commissioned by William of Orange as a gift to Catherine de' Medici (Bertrand)
 * Yates claims that they were designed by Lucas de Heere, a propaganda expert? (Yates p. XV)
 * Jean Coural claims that they were woven in Antwerp before 1581 (Bertrand)
 * Leon de Groër claims that they were commissioned around 1575 by Catherine de' Medici or someone in her immediate entourage (Bertrand)
 * Antoine Caron created drawings of the festivals that were used in the designs. (Yates p. XX)
 * It is likely that Catherine de' Medici had input on the creation and design. (Yates p. XX)
 * G.T. van Ysselsteyn suggests Oudenarde was where the tapestry was made. (Yates p. XX)
 * Add themes and iconography sub-heading (To be divided from current "Composition and Context" subheading)
 * The Tapestries celebrate the intervention of Anjou in the Netherlands. (Yates p.XVIII)
 * Add Catherine de'Medici sub-heading
 * Catherine is pictured in all of the tapestries but one (Bertrand)
 * The scenes represented were all festivals produced during her regency. (Yates p. XV)
 * Add images of all eight tapestries to the descriptions of each of the eight tapestries
 * Expand on all descriptions of the eight tapestries
 * Attaque de Vue devant le château de Fontainebleau, also known as Fontainebleau
 * Combat à la barrière, also known as Barriers
 * Carrousel des chevaliers bretons et irlandais à Bayonne, also known as Tournament
 * Départ de la Cour du château d'Anet, also known as Journey
 * Fête aux Tuileries en l'honneur des ambassadeurs polonais, also known as Polish Ambassadors
 * Sixteen nymphs represent the French provinces (Bertrand)
 * Fête nautique sur l'Adour, also known as Whale
 * Jeu de la quintaine, also known as Quintain
 * Mascarade à l'éléphant, also known as Elephant
 * Depicting festival for François-Hercule d'Alençon-d'Anjou entering Antwerp in 1582 (Bertrand)
 * Add scholarship of Yates sub-heading?

References:
Bertrand, Pascal-François. "A New Method of Interpreting the Valois Tapestries, through a History of Catherine de' Médicis". Studies in the Decorative Arts, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 2006-2007), 27-52.

Cleland, Elizabeth A.H; Wieseman, Marjorie E; de Luca, Francesca. "Renaissance splendor: Catherine de' Medici's Valois tapestries". Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2018. ISBN 9781935294696 1935294695 9780300237061 0300237065.

Ehrmann, Jean; Muller, René; Blunt, Anthony. "Drawings by Antoine Caron for the Valois Tapestries in the Uffizi, Florence". Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1958.

Federal Register. "Notice of Determinations; Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition-Determinations: 'Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de Medici's Valois Tapestries' Exhibition." Expanded Academic ASAP, 19 Oct. 2018. http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A558794648/EAIM?u=mnacarlb&sid=EAIM&xid=d0e51151.

Kociszewska, Ewa. "Woven Bloodlines: The Valois Tapestries in the Trousseau of Christine de Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany". Artibus et Historiae 73, (2016): 335-363. ISSN 0391-9064.

Sayce, R. A. Review of, "The Valois Tapestries" by Frances A. Yates. The Modern Language Review, Vol. 55 No. 4 (Oct. 1960). 601-602.

Walker, D.P. Review of, "The Valois Tapestries" by Frances A. Yates. Comparative Literature, Vol.12 No. 2 (Spring 1960). 178-180.

Yates, Frances A. "The Valois Tapestries." London, England: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. ISBN 0-7100-8244-4.

Lead:
The Valois Tapestries are a series of eight tapestries depicting festivities or "magnificences"[1] held by Catherine de' Medici's Royal Courts in the second half of the 16th century. The tapestries were primarily modeled on drawings done by Antonie Caron (Yates p. xx) and assembled by teams of weavers in the Burgundian Netherlands, probably in Brussels or Antwerp,[2] shortly after 1580. A number of great artists and artisans worked on the creation of these tapestries but today we are left with nothing but theories and speculation to their identities. Scholars such as Frances Yates and Jean Coural have developed nuanced theories backed by evidence to identify these unknown contributors but research has yet to confirm many of these findings. These works display surprisingly intimate and personal moments within the royal inner circle clashing against the backdrop of these lavish festivals. __NOINDEX__ __NEWSECTIONLINK__