A BRUSSELS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY

LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A BRUSSELS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
Late 17th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Minerva in her armour and the seated Diana handing her a golden cloth before her, with two female attendants standing before an urn of flowers, set within a wooded landscape and a view in the distance, within a border of flowers and fruits and vases and with various parrots and dogs, within a brown outer slip, minor reweaving and patching, the brown outer slip to top and base later
148 in. x 100 in. (376 cm. x 254 cm.)

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Diana, goddess of the earth, the sky and the underworld, was a symbol for Chastity and was sometimes aided by Minerva in that role.

The border is typical for a group of mythological subjects woven in Brussels in the late 17th Century and early 18th Century. A tapestry depicting Euridice Bitten by a Snake with very closely related borders is illustrated in G. Delmarcel and A. Volckaert, Flemish Tapestries, exhibition catalogue, Luxembourg, 1995, p.61, cat 19.