Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Sept. 18, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012, and at the Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Feb. 5-May 13, 2012; previously shown at 5 European venues. Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-101).
Contents:
The Pastrana tapestries, war photojournalism of the fifteenth century / Miguel Ángel Aguilar -- The Pastrana tapestries and Portuguese expansion in North Africa / Miguel Ángel de Bunes Ibarra -- Afonso the African and his army : the Pastrana tapestries as a visual encyclopedia for the study of arms and armor / Donald J. La Rocca -- The Pastrana tapestries and the Panels of St Vincent : artistic legacy and symbolic memory of the reign of Afonso V of Portugal / Dalila Rodrigues -- Landing at Ashilah -- Seige of Asilah -- Assault on Asilah -- Fall of Tangier -- The conservation of the tapestries at the collegiate church of Pastrana / Yvan Maes De Wit.
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