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A BRUSSELS RENAISSANCE MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
MID-16TH CENTURY
Depicting a scene from the Aeneid, with Aeneas and Achates having arrived at Carthage, preparing to distribute food to their hungry companions, with a harborscape in the distance, the borders woven with fruit and flower garlands interspersed with female figures, the upper borders woven with 'SEPTEM PROSTERNIT CERVOS COMITATVS ACHATE QVOS FAME DEFFESSOS DIVIDIT IN SOCIOS', areas of reweaving
11ft. 4in. x 17ft. (3m. 45cm. x 5m. 18cm.)
MID-16TH CENTURY
Depicting a scene from the Aeneid, with Aeneas and Achates having arrived at Carthage, preparing to distribute food to their hungry companions, with a harborscape in the distance, the borders woven with fruit and flower garlands interspersed with female figures, the upper borders woven with 'SEPTEM PROSTERNIT CERVOS COMITATVS ACHATE QVOS FAME DEFFESSOS DIVIDIT IN SOCIOS', areas of reweaving
11ft. 4in. x 17ft. (3m. 45cm. x 5m. 18cm.)