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mixed fabric | size 110 x 150 cm (h/w)
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Tapestry "A mon seul désir" (My Only Wish)
Original: Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris. "A mon seul désir" ("My only wish") is one of six tapestry weavings made in the Netherlands at the end of the 15th century. Together they are known as "La dame à la licorne" ("Lady with the Unicorn") and are considered the main attraction of the museum. Five of them symbolically represent the senses, and this sixth, central tapestry weaving bears the main motif that also inspired its name.
Tapestry, lavish reproduction made of wool, cotton and polyester. Size 110 x 150 cm (h/w).
(Rebirth). The term describing art from around 1350 until the 16th century.
A mindset that developed in Florence in the late 14th century that was retrospectively classified as rebirth of the classical ideals of Greek and Roman antiquity. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Renaissance spread first over Italy and then all over Western Europe and determined the entire artistic creation. Brilliant artists such as Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dürer, Holbein, Cranach and Fouquet created their immortal works by following the humanistic premises and placing the human being in the centre of all thinking.
Renaissance experienced its heyday in literature through dramatic works and poems of William Shakespeare.
At the end of the 16th century, the Renaissance had to give way to the opulence of baroque, before its ideas experienced a rebirth in the classicism of the 18th century.