Pieter van Aelst

Belgian weaver

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In tapestry: 16th century
…X commissioned the famed weaver Pieter van Aelst (flourished late 15th–early 16th century) of Brussels to make a series of tapestries illustrating the Acts of the Apostles from cartoons produced between 1514 and 1516 by Raphael (1483–1520). Little or no concession had been made to the tapestry medium for which…
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