UO Today: Professor discusses 17th-century tapestry exhibition

Nov 17, 2017 947

In a recent interview on “UO Today,” James Harper, an associate professor in the UO Department of the History of Art and Architecture and a specialist in 16th- and 17th-century Italian art, talked about a major exhibit of The Barberini Tapestries now on view at the UO.

Harper curated "The Barberini Tapestries: Woven Monuments of Baroque Rome," an exhibit of the ornate, 17th-century tapestries at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The tapestries once hung in Palazzo Barberini, the family palace of the cardinal who commissioned them, and were also loaned out to St. Peter’s Basilica and other locations around Rome.

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