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European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00351.8

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Pascal-François Bertrand is Professor of Art History at the Université Michel de Montaigne 3, Bordeaux. He completed his doctorate in 1988 and received his Habilitation à diriger des Recherches in 2000 from the Université de Paris 10, Nanterre. His extensive publications on the history of tapestry include Les Tapisseries d’Aubusson et de Felletin: 1457–1791, written with Dominique and Pierre Chevalier (1988); Histoire de la tapisserie en Europe du Moyen Âge à nos jours, coauthored with Fabienne Joubert and Amaury Lefébure (1995); and Les Tapisseries des Barberini et la décoration d’intérieur dans la Rome baroque (2005), which deals with the function and use of tapestry in Rome, using the Barberini family as an example. Bertrand is currently working on a study entitled La Peinture tissée, which analyzes the connection between painting and tapestry.

Charissa Bremer-David is Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. She received her B.A. in Art History from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her M.A. in Modern European History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her extensive publications on the Getty’s decorative arts collection include the catalogue French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum (1997), which presented new research gleaned from the archives of the Beauvais tapestry manufactory now housed in the Mobilier National, Paris. Bremer-David has just finished collaborating on the manuscript for a catalogue on the Getty’s collection of Baroque furniture.

Koenraad Brosens earned his Ph.D. from the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, with Contextual Study of Brussels Tapestry, 1670–1770: The Dye Works and Tapestry Workshop of Urbanus Leyniers (1674–1747) (2004). In addition to writing many articles on Flemish and French tapestry of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he served as general editor of Flemish Tapestry in European and American Collections: Studies in Honour of Guy Delmarcel (2003), for which he also coauthored with Christa C. Mayer Thurman an article on the Art Institute’s holdings. Brosens is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the F.W.O.–Vlaanderen (Research Foundation–Flanders, Belgium) and visiting associate professor at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven.

Elizabeth Cleland is Leo and Julia Forchheimer Research Fellow in the Antonio Ratti Textile Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her specialty is medieval and Renaissance tapestry. Cleland has contributed to numerous catalogues, including Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence (2002); published articles on tapestry design and function in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; and lectured in Europe and the United States. She is currently preparing for publication her doctoral thesis, which explores the relationship between tapestries, paintings, and their designers during the Renaissance.

Guy Delmarcel is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, and a member of the Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium. He has published extensively on the history of Flemish tapestry.

Nello Forti Grazzini is an independent scholar based in Milan. He received his Dottore di Ricerca from the Università Statale di Milano. Forti Grazzini’s numerous publications on the history of European tapestry include books, among them one on the production of tapestries in Ferrara during the Renaissance (1982); catalogues of museum and other collections, such as those of the Palazzo Quirinale, Rome (1994) and the Fondazione Cini, Venice (2003); and many articles. He has also organized exhibitions, including one devoted to the tapestries of the Farnese and Bourbon courts (1998, with Giuseppe Bertini). Forti Grazzini is currently researching Milanese tapestry collections during the Baroque period.

Yvan Maes De Wit has directed the De Wit Royal Manufacturers in Mechelen, Belgium, since 1980, representing the fourth generation of tapestry weavers and restorers. He graduated in art history and economics from the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, and has written fifteen scientific publications on the conservation of tapestries.

Christa C. Mayer Thurman has been Curator in the Department of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago since 1967. Over her career, she has enlarged the department’s holdings in every field and organized nearly eighty exhibitions. Among her many publications are two surveys of textiles in the Art Institute (1969 and 1992); retrospectives of the modern artists Lissy Funk (1988) and Claire Zeisler (1975); and a study of western European vestments (1975). Mayer Thurman has also organized several issues of Museum Studies, the Art Institute’s journal, including ones on Japanese kimonos, Chinese textiles, and Indonesian textiles, and written an issue on the history of textile design in Chicago. For the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she contributed to European Textiles in the Robert Lehman Collection (2001) and to Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision 1925–1940 (1983). In 2000, she received the College Art Association/Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation, and in 2004, as a J. Paul Getty Museum Guest Scholar, spent three months researching the Art Institute’s tapestry collection.

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