Artists | Threads of History

A Portuguese king sought to glorify his military exploits through the art of tapestry.  In the 1470s King Afonso V of Portugal (1432–1482) commissioned a series of tapestries from the workshop of Flemish weaver Pasquier Grenier, the preeminent commercial weaver of the late 15th century. Medieval and Renaissance monarchs and merchant princes often commissioned tapestries, …

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