Lunchtime Lecture: Four Seasons Tapestries
- Lecture
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Four Seasons: Spring: Fishing Scene, designed c. 1535, woven mid- to late 1600s. Possibly woven at Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662). Wool, silk, and gold filé: tapestry weave; 257.8 x 265.4 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Francis Ginn, Marian Ginn Jones, Barbara Ginn Griesinger, and Alexander Ginn in memory of Frank Hadley Ginn and Cornelia Root Ginn, 1952.544.1
About The Event
Come to the CMA for a quick bite of art history. Every first Tuesday of each month, join curators, conservators, scholars, and other museum staff for 30-minute talks on objects currently on display in the museum galleries.
Join CMA conservator Robin Hanson and hear the life story of a recently conserved set of 17th-century French tapestries on view in the CMA exhibition Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries. Hanson shares details of the tapestries’ initial design and production, subsequent reproduction and alteration, and recent conservation treatment by tapestry conservation specialists in Belgium.