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February 27, 2008
Thomas P. Campbell, ed. Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 592 pp.; 175 color ills.; 169 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300124071)

Exhibition schedule: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 16, 2007–January 6, 2008; Palacio Real, Madrid, March 6–June 1, 2008

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.18

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Hans Knieper. Throne Baldachin (detail) (1585–86). Wool, silk, and silver and gilt-metal wrapped thread. Backcloth: 9 ft. 1/4 in. x 11 ft. 7 in. (275 x 353 cm). Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

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Even for the Metropolitan Museum of Art it was impossible to duplicate the revelatory experience and concomitant visitor record of Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence, the 2002 precursor of the present show and the first major U.S. exhibition on the topic in twenty-five years. Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor comes just five years later and simply could not be marketed as the same kind of novelty. Yet the faithful, returning museumgoer...