Speaker: Charissa Bremer-David, Curator, Sculpture & Decorative Arts, The J. Paul Getty Museum

Designed for a queen, commissioned by a king, woven with golden threads, and purchased by a duke, the set of four Artemisia tapestries at the Timken Museum of Art was the ultimate expression of artistic taste, patronage, and production in early seventeenth-century Paris. Hear how these marvelous tapestries embodied contemporary royal propaganda, princely aspirations, entrepreneurial strategy, and superlative craftsmanship.