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| ARITHMETIC AND ASTRONOMY (28.457) |
This tapestry is part of a large tapestry representing
the Seven Liberal Arts, which, it has
been suggested served as added decoration on feast days in the Spanish Chapel
of Santa Maria, Novella, Florence. The same allegorical occur there in the
frescoes of the left wall by Andrea de Firenze. In the tapestry the figure of
Astronomy is accompanied by Ptolemy and that of Arithmetic by Archimedes. On
the latter’s robe are woven, “KHYN,” the name of the designer, from a family of
famous tapestry weavers of Tournai. Another fragment, Geometry, probably from
the same tapestry, is in the collection of the Grand Lodge Library and Museum
of Freemasons’ Hall, London. The border on the Memori al Art Gallery tapestry
is a later edition.
ARITHMETIC AND
ASTRONOMY
Flemish, Tournai,
ca. 1400
(Text and Picture Copyright in 1977 by the Memorial Art
Gallery of the University of Rochester which is not responsible for this
publication.)
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