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Tapestries by Rafael in the Sistine Chapel
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A number of Flemish tapestries
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Strasbourg Cathedral
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La Seo Cathedral in Zaragoza has a large and valuable collection of Flemish and French tapestries which used to be displayed inside the cathedral
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Palace of the Dukes of Braganza: "In its vast collection, are the tapestries of Pastrana, which narrate some of the events in North African conquests, attributed to Nuno Gonçalves ... and a collection of Flemish tapestries by Peter Paul Rubens, among others"
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Depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
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The Santiago Cathedral Museum houses "tapestries by Rubens, Teniers, Josédel Castillo or Goya"
See museos.xunta.gal
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Palazzo Ducale: "The nine tapestries with the Stories of Saint Peter and Saint Paul were woven in Brussels around 1550 after the cartoons that Raphael created for Pope Leo X for a set of tapestries to be hung in the Sistine Chapel."
See mantovaducale.beniculturali.it
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Series of 10, made in Brussels, depicting the battles in the Wars of the Spanish Succession by the 1st Duke of Marlborough
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The monastery of San Lorenzo, main beneficiary of that Royal collection, still has a rich collection of tapestries. Many of them from Bayeau and Goya and a few from Watteau. (Until recently they couldn't be visited)
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Westminster Abbey is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
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Koblenz: the elector's former palace is now a museum; among other curiosities, it contains some fine Gobelin tapestries. (Wiki)
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Goslar - Margaretendecke (1440) at St. Annenhaus
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The Prado has a rich tapestry collection, most of which is of Royal origin. It includes almost all the important works of tapestry from Goya.
See en.wikipedia.org
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105 carpets prepared by Le Brun for the Louvre
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40 King's Tapestries (1580) displaying no less than 113 historic Danish kings ("To reach such a high number, Frederik II included all sorts of legendary kings"). 14 have survived, 7 are still in the castle
See www.kronborgcastle.com
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Tapestries in the cathedral and in the castle
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Numerous Seljuk carpets
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The 5th century BC Pazyryk carpet, a product of an Achaemenid carpet production centre, was discovered in 1949 in the Altai Mountains.
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Belfrie of Oudenaarde: The tapestries hanging in the Lower Cloth Hall and the adjacent Cloth Hall building represent an art form that brought the city fame between about the 15th-18th centuries
See en.wikipedia.org
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