in the religious scenes or integrated into secular contexts have always served to represent opulence, exoticism, luxury, wealth, status …

3. Adventures of a carpet
reserved
for religious scenes,
for the most powerful and most wealthy
for royalty and nobility,
the merchants and bourgeois with enough wealth to afford luxury products
we found her with an embarrassing frequency and in the most disparate positions
on the balconies of bourgeois houses
hung on the walls
on a table
at the feet of the throne of the Virgin
on the ground

4. Carpets in Renaissance painting

5. in the religious scenes or integrated into secular contexts have always served to represent
opulence, exoticism, luxury, wealth, status …

10. Carlo Crivelli
The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius
L'Annonciation avec Saint Emidius
1486
National Gallery, London

13. Antonello da Messina
St Sebastian
Saint Sébastien
1476-1479
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

15. Carlo Crivelli
The Virgin Annunciate
La Vierge de l'Annonciation
1482
Städelsches Kunstinstitut und
Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main

17. Vittore Carpaccio
The Visitation
La Visitation
1504-1506
Galleria Franchetti, Ca'
d'Oro, Venice

19. Vittore Carpaccio
Birth of the virgin
La Naissance de la Vierge
1504-1508
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

21. William Larkin
Portrait of Edward Sackville, 3rd Earl
of Dorset
Portrait de Richard Sackville, 3e
comte de Dorset
1613
Kenwood House, English Heritage,
London

23. Nicholas Hilliard, atelier
Portrait of Elizabeth I of England
Portrait d'Elizabeth I d'Angleterre
1599
Hardwick Hall, National Trust

25. William Larkin
Dorothy Cary, later Viscountess
Rochford
Dorothy Cary, plus tard vicomtesse
Rochford
1614-1618
Kenwood House, English Heritage,
London

27. Hans Holbein the Younger, workshop of
Hans Holbein le Jeune, atelier de
Portrait of Henry VIII
Portrait d'Henri VIII
1536-1537
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

30. Jan Van Eyck
The Madonna with Canon
van der Paele
La Vierge au chanoine Van
der Paele
1436
Groeninge Museum,
Bruges

32. Jan van Eyck
Lucca Madonna
1435-1440
Städelsche Kunstinstitut und
Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main

35. Piero della Francesca
The Brera Madonna
Brera Madonna, La Conversation sacrée
1472
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

37. Hans Memling
The St John Altarpiece, Triptych of St
John the Baptist and St John the
Evangelist.Central panel, The Mystic
Marriage of St. Catherine
Triptyque de saint Jean-Baptiste et
saint Jean l'Évangéliste. Panneau
central, Le Mariage mystique de
sainte Catherine
1479
Memlingmuseum, Sint-Janshospitaal,
Bruges

40. Hans Memling
Madonna of Jacob Floreins, The
Virgin and Child between St James
and St Dominic
La Vierge de Jacques Floreins, La
Vierge et l’Enfant entre saint Jacques
et saint Dominique présentant les
donateurs et leur famille
1485-1490
Musée du Louvre, Paris

43. Domenico Ghirlandaio
Madonna and Child Enthroned with
Saints
Vierge à l'Enfant en Conversation
sacrée avec les saints évêques Juste
de Rochester et Zénobe de Florence
1483
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

45. Andrea Previtali
The Annunciation
L'Annonciation
1508
Santuario di Santa Maria Annunziata,
Meschio

49. Domenico Ghirlandaio
St Jerome in his Study
Saint Jérôme
1480
Chiesa di Ognissanti, Florence

51. Anonyme
Somerset House Conference
Conférence de Somerset House
1604
National Portrait Gallery, London

53. Lorenzo Lotto
Portrait of Giovanni della Volta with
his Wife and Children
Portrait de Giovanni Della Volta
avec sa femme et de ses enfants
1547
National Gallery, London

55. LOTTO, Lorenzo
Family Portrait
Un portrait de famille
1523-24
The Hermitage, St.
Petersburg

57. Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein le Jeune
Portrait of the Merchant Georg Gisze
Le Marchand Georg Gisze
1532
Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen
Museen, Berlin

60. Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein le Jeune
The Ambassadors
Les Ambassadeurs
1533
National Gallery, London

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Carpets in Renaissance painting
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