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A septet of paintings and tapestries spanning the 15th-20th centuries. All very different in mood and intent, yet each filled with exquisite, finely-patterned detail.

Gustav Klimt, Die Tanzerin (The Dancer)
Oil on canvas, c 1916-18
Courtesy: Neue Galerie

Pierre Bonnard, Nude in the Bath and Small Dog, 1941-6
Courtesy: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

La Dame a La Licorne, Le Toucher (detail)
Tapestry, wool & silk, end of 15th century
Courtesy: Reunion des musees nationeaux, Paris

William Blake, Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car, 1824-7
Pen and watercolor
Courtesy: the Tate Gallery, London

Paramasukha—Chakrasamvara (detail) Tangka, Gouache on cotton
Tibet, late 15th-early 16th century
Courtesy: Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Private Collection  Photo: Kaz Tsuruta

The Hunt of the Unicorn, Flemish, c 1500
Detail, Fourth tapestry in the series, The Unicorn Defends Himself
The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Edouard Vuillard, Mother and Sister of the Artist, c 1893
Courtesy: The Museum of Modern Art

This entry was posted on June 26, 2009 at 1:00 am and is filed under Christine Cariati, Fine & Decorative Arts, Painting, Textiles with tags Edouard Vuillard, Gustav Klimt, Pierre Bonnard, Tibetan Tangka, Unicorn Tapestries, William Blake. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.