Author: Yates, Frances
Title: The Valois Tapestries
Description: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 2nd edition. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG+. xxviii+150pp, 48pp b/w plates, index, a fine copy in a priceclipped & slightly spine faded dustjacket. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 0710082444 ¶ Detailed study of the contextual & figurative meaning of the Valois Tapestries which now hang in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Commissioned by Catherine de Medici in the 15th C they were a pictorial record of the series of festivals which had been held at the Valois court in a vain attempt to engender reconcilliation between various hostile religious factions.

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