QuoteReplyTopic: Pastrana Tapestries of Alfonso V of Portugal - lat Posted: 08-Mar-2015 at 06:54
Pastrana Tapestries of Alfonso V of Portugal - late 15th Century In the late 1400s a set of four tapestries was created to commemorate the exploits of Alfonso V (1432 – 1481), king of Portugal, in North Africa. Probably commissioned by the king himself, the tapestries were woven on a monumental scale by Flemish weavers in Tournai, Belgium. They have been the property of the Collegiate Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Pastrana, Spain, since the seventeenth century. The tapestries represent Alfonso's campaigns in Morocco where his troops won major victories in 1471 at the coastal cities of Asilah and Tangier, strategically located near the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.
Infanta Cristina of Spain attended a preview of the exhibition "The Invention of Glory: Alfonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. on September 13, 2011.
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