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Late medieval tapestries often use a limited yet contrasting color palette to portray stylized images. The expressions of these figures, for example, are conveyed more by their postures than by their faces. Four shepherds and shepherdesses join hands and dance to the music of a bagpiper at the far right, while a lord and two ladies on the left look on. A dog and sheep amid blossoming plants and trees contribute to the festive pastoral scene in front of a castle.
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118035
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Shepherds in a Round Dance
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118035
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title
Shepherds in a Round Dance
description
Late medieval tapestries often use a limited yet contrasting color palette to portray stylized images. The expressions of these figures, for example, are conveyed more by their postures than by their faces. Four shepherds and shepherdesses join hands and dance to the music of a bagpiper at the far right, while a lord and two ladies on the left look on. A dog and sheep amid blossoming plants and trees contribute to the festive pastoral scene in front of a castle.
date
around 1500
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q80012762
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Tapestry
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Overall: 360.5 x 401.1 cm (141 15/16 x 157 15/16 in.)
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Netherlands, early 16th century
accession
1939.158
Source extras
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Wool and silk: tapestry weave
tombstone
Shepherds in a Round Dance, around 1500. Netherlands, early 16th century. Wool and silk: tapestry weave; overall: 360.5 x 401.1 cm (141 15/16 x 157 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection, 1939.158
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Textiles
citations
citation
Milliken, William. "The Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection Gift of Leonard C Hanna." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>26, no. 6 (June 1939): 84-115
page_number
Mentioned: p. 98; Reproduced: p. 102
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Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection
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2026-05-29 06:07:02.922000
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118035
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Textiles
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Wool and silk: tapestry weave
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