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Title: Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Townsend, Horace, 1859-1922 Volpi, Elia, 1858-1938 Guglielmetti, Cesare A Rusconi, Arturo Jahn
Subjects: Volpi, Elia, 1858-1938
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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w PL, < o 0 // yWr/ c * GOT —Late Fifteenth Century Flemish Marriage Tapestry/o Rectangular shape. Divided horizontally into two compart-ments of inter-related subjects relating to a fifteenth centurymarriage. In the upper one is shown the arrival of the bride-to-be at her future home. In the center, the young woman iskneeling at the feet and grasping the welcoming hands of her be-trotheds mother, while on the left are seen the father, and theyouth himself, leaning against a pillar and gazing Lovingly athis future wife. On the right, behind the bride, stand her motherand father and three of her youthful kinsmen, one of whom,starting forward with an angry gesture, is restrained by a com-panion. In the background are seen fruit trees and the towersand high gibbet of a town. Below, in a field of varicoloredflowers, the bride and bridegroom, now presumably happily mar-ried, are seated in the center of the composition, the bridegroomhanding her a basket of fruits which he holds in bot

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