Dido, Queen of Carthage

Scipio Welcomed Outside the Gates of Rome by Peter Paul Rubens, after a design by Giulio Romano for a tapestry series depicting the life of Scipio Africanus, woven for François I of France

Flemish, 1620s

brown ink, wash, and bodycolor, heightened with white and grey, over black chalk and grey-brown ink underdrawing, on light brown paper

private collection

Bacchus Transforming into Trees the Thracian Women Who Murdered Orpheus (and detail) by Battista Dossi, a modello for one of the tapestries of the Metamorphoses for which Dossi was paid in 1545

Italian, c. 1545

pen and ink with white and grey wash on paper

Royal Collection Trust

Tapestries from the series known as "The History of Constantine the Great"

Woven at the Comans-La Planche tapestry factory, Paris, following a figural composition designed in 1622 by Peter Paul Rubens 

wool and silk and gold and silver threads

Philadelphia Museum of Art x x x x

Emperor Vespasian Cured by Veronica's Veil 

Brussels, Flanders, ca. 1510

wool, silk, and gilt-wrapped silk in tapestry weave

Metropolitan Museum of Art