The tapestry in the background is based on Titian's The Rape of Europa, or, more probably, the copy that Rubens painted in Madrid.

A tapestry copy of Picasso's Guernica depicting a massacre of innocent women and children during the Spanish civil war is displayed on the wall of the United Nations building in New York City, at the entrance to the Security Council room, demonstrably as a spur to the conscience of representatives from the nation states.

They were destroyed in the French Bombardment of Brussels in 1695, but are known from many surviving descriptions, from a free partial copy in tapestry ( Bern, Historisches Museum ) and from other free and partial copies in drawing and painting.

A tapestry copy of Picasso's Guernica is displayed on the wall of the United Nations building in New York City, at the entrance to the Security Council room.

A tapestry copy of Picasso's Guernica is displayed on the wall of the United Nations Building in New York City at the entrance to the Security Council room.

A tapestry based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica, loaned by the United Nations, is to be included in the inaugural exhibition by Goshka Macuga.

On 17 March 2009, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Marie Okabe announced that the Guernica tapestry had been moved to a gallery in London in advance of extensive renovations at UN Headquarters.

The Guernica tapestry was the showcase piece for the grand reopening of the Whitechapel Gallery.

( 2009 ) " Picasso tapestry of Guernica heads to UK ", London: The Guardian, 26 January 2009.

He began making small terracotta sculptures in 1895, and within a few years his concentration on sculpture led to the abandonment of his work in tapestry.

A cartoon ( from the Italian " cartone " and Dutch word " karton ", meaning strong, heavy paper or pasteboard ) is a full-size drawing made on sturdy paper as a study or modello for a painting, stained glass or tapestry.

File: Harold dead bayeux tapestry. png | Three soldiers on the Bayeux Tapestry ( 11th. c ) bearing pre-heraldic shields.

Agamemnon initially rejects the hubris of walking on the fine purple tapestry, an act suggested by Clytemnestra, in hopes of bringing his ruin.

Celebrated on the 21st of June, the entire town and its " frazioni " become one varicoloured musical tapestry that offsets beautifully the jewel of the territory itself.

When his business was enlarged in 1881 by the establishment of a tapestry industry at Merton Abbey Mills, in South West London, Morris found yet another means for expressing the medievalism that inspired all his work, whether on paper or at the loom.

Writing on tapestry weaving, Morris said:

Flemish tapestries and, in the 16th and 17th centuries, Brussels tapestry hung on the walls of castles throughout Europe.

La Vie mode d ' emploi is an immensely complex and rich work ; a tapestry of interwoven stories and ideas as well as literary and historical allusions, based on the lives of the inhabitants of a fictitious Parisian apartment block.

The tapestry consists of some fifty scenes with Latin tituli ( captions ), embroidered on linen with coloured woollen yarns.

The reasons for the Odo commission theory include: 1 ) three of the bishop's followers mentioned in the Domesday Book appear on the tapestry ; 2 ) it was found in Bayeux Cathedral, built by Odo ; and 3 ) it may have been commissioned at the same time as the cathedral's construction in the 1070s, possibly completed by 1077 in time for display on the cathedral's dedication.

The Bayeux tapestry is embroidered in wool yarn on a tabby-woven linen ground 68. 38 metres long and 0. 5 metres wide () and using two methods of stitching: outline or stem stitch for lettering and the outlines of figures, and couching or laid work for filling in figures.

On the way, just outside the monastery of Mont Saint-Michel, the army become mired in quicksand and Harold saves two Norman soldiers .< sup >( scene 17 )</ sup > William's army chases Conan from Dol de Bretagne to Rennes, and Conan finally surrenders at Dinan .< sup >( scene 20 )</ sup > William gives Harold arms and armour ( possibly knighting him ) and Harold takes an oath on saintly relics .< sup >( scene 23 )</ sup > Although the writing on the tapestry explicitly states an oath is taken there is no clue as to what is being promised.

The scene then shifts by about one year to when Edward has become mortally ill and the tapestry strongly suggests that, on his deathbed, he bequeaths the crown to Harold.

The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 less than three weeks after the Battle of Stamford Bridge but the tapestry does not provide this context.

On 27 June 1944 the Gestapo took the tapestry to the Louvre and on 18 August, three days before the Wehrmacht withdrew from Paris, Himmler sent a message ( intercepted by Bletchley Park ) ordering it to be taken to " a place of safety ", thought to be Berlin.

It was only on 22 August that the SS attempted to take possession of the tapestry by which time the Louvre was again in French hands.

After the liberation of Paris, on 25 August, the tapestry was again put on public display in the Louvre and in 1945 it was returned to Bayeux where it is exhibited at Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux.

The tapestry was becoming a tourist attraction with Robert Southey complaining of the need to queue to see the work In the 1843 Hand-book for Travellers in France by John Murray III a visit was included on Recommended Route 26 ( Caen to Cherbourg via Bayeux ) and this guidebook led John Ruskin to go there describing it as " the most interesting thing in its way conceivable ".

" Essex also asserted that Cecil had stated that none in the world but the Infanta of Spain had right to the Crown of England, whereupon Cecil ( who had been following the trial at a doorway concealed behind some tapestry ) stepped out to make a dramatic denial, going down on his knees to give thanks to God for the opportunity.

Queen Elizabeth II approved in Regina, Saskatchewan on July 4, 1973 a new badge for the RCMP, in recognition of which the force presented the sovereign with a tapestry rendering of the new design.

Agamemnon initially rejects the hubris of walking on the fine purple tapestry, an act which is suggested by Clytemnestra, in hopes of bringing his ruin.

With regards to interior decoration, Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings.

Probable Greek soldier in the Sampul tapestry, woollen wall hanging, 3rd – 2nd century BC, Sampul, Urumqi Xinjiang Museum.

* The Sampul tapestry, woollen wall hanging, 3rd – 2nd century BC, Sampul, Ürümqi Xinjiang Museum.

" This tapestry currently hangs on the wall of the Town Hall.

In Las Hilanderas, probably painted the year after Las Meninas, two different scenes from Ovid are shown: one in contemporary dress in the foreground, and the other partly in antique dress, played before a tapestry on the back wall of a room behind the first.

Probable Greek soldier in the Sampul tapestry, woolen wall hanging, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Sampul, Urumqi Xinjiang Museum.

Another mural followed at the Hygiene-Museum ( German Hygiene Museum ) entitled " Lebensfreude " (" Joy of life "), for his diploma and intended to produce an effect " similar to that of wall paper or tapestry ".

Probable Greek soldier, woollen wall hanging, Sampul tapestry, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Sampul, Urumqi Xinjiang Museum.

At the same time period in the Middle East, fiber artists did not make tapestry or wall hanging weavings, but instead created beautifully crafted rugs.

The seventh tapestry in the series appears briefly in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, adorning the wall of a corridor near the Room of Requirement and the tapestry is seen in the various common rooms ( Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff ) with different colored backgrounds.

After the Lauders finally parted with Fountainhall in the 1920s, the removal of a lath-and-plaster wall revealed a tapestry in situ, dating from about 1700.