A symposium on art + propaganda in European tapestry | Day 1 @FAMSF
A symposium on art + propaganda in European tapestry | Day 1  @FAMSF
Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Join us for a two-day symposium exploring the world of European tapestries. Organized on the occasion of the exhibition "Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries," this landmark summit will feature cutting-edge research from leading international experts.

Featured speakers
10am-12:30pm
Francesca Borgo, Assistant Professor, University of St Andrews / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome

Elizabeth Cleland, Curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bernard van Orley, Painter – Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Painter and Cartoon-Maker: Unpacking Purviews and Collaborations in 16th-century Brabant and Flanders

Anne Labourdette, Curator, Decorative Arts, Louvre, Charles V's Story, Woven in Bruges around 1635

2:00-3:15 pm

Koenraad Brosens, Vice Dean, Education and Programs, Faculty of Arts, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Propaganda Lost and Aborted: The Throne Ensembles of John V of Portugal and Empress Maria Theresa

Rudy Jos Beerens, Curator, Netherlands Institute for Art History, Splendor on Loan: The Art and Politics of Rented Tapestries in the Dutch Republic

Tristan Weddigen, Professor, Early Modern Art History, Institute of Art History, University of Zurich; Director, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, Charles Le Brun’s Famed History of the King Tapestry Set, Produced between 1665 and 1681 at the Gobelins Manufactory in Paris

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