A FLEMISH RENAISSANCE BIBLICAL TAPESTRY
A FLEMISH RENAISSANCE BIBLICAL TAPESTRY

16TH CENTURY

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A FLEMISH RENAISSANCE BIBLICAL TAPESTRY
16th Century
In an open architectural setting, the central crowned and enthroned female figure flanked by three handmaidens, a fourth to the left urging a boy towards a kneeling woman on the right with an apple in her right hand, on the left a wooded landscape with a man walking in the distance, a man striking another over the head in the mid-ground, and a man, a woman, and a handmaiden approaching the scene in the foreground, on the right a man gesturing while others flee up a staircase and out of the scene, within a flower and fruitcluster surround punctuated along the top and bottom edges by balustrades and sphinxes, and along the sides by a figure, a mask, and a beaded and crowned man, reduced in width
9ft. (274cm.) high, 12ft. 8in. (3.86m) wide