Tapestry
Hungarian (Probably made at the Gödöllő School of Weaving)
1904/1914
- Medium
- Wool, silk, and metal-strip-wrapped threads, tapestry weave
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 136.5 × 110.1 cm (53 3/4 × 43 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Hungary
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Leigh B. Block
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This tapestry evokes fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European art and design, even though it was made centuries later. Resplendent in a gown and sitting atop a powerful horse, the crowned figure proudly carries a falcon. The fashionable hunting scene is set in a simplified millefleur (thousand flowers) design. This combination was a popular tapestry style during the late medieval period.
The pairing of the detail in the patterning of the dress with the angularity of the forms is typical of tapestries designed and made at the Gödölló School of Weaving. The GödölIó Workshops, which included the weaving school, were established in the early twentieth century just north of Budapest. There, artists designed and made a great variety of decorative arts objects in hopes of establishing a Hungarian national aesthetic. They incorporated medieval elements in their modern designs to demonstrate their country's strong and vibrant heritage.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
