Isola Bella - Borromeo Palace - The Gallery of Tapestries

            The last room of the palace is the famous Tapestry Gallery, named after the series of Flemish tapestries
are kept here and are its main attraction, together with the rich stucco decoration of the ceiling and the canvases on the upper part of the walls. 
On display in the room are 6 of the 7 Flemish-made tapestries woven in the second half of the 1500s in
Brussels and arrived on the island in 1787, given to Count Giberto V by his uncle Cardinal Vitaliano VII; it is not clear how they came into his possession, but it seems that they were part of the collection of Cardinal Mazarin, minister to Louis XIII, who is said to have acquired them in turn from the family of the Cardinal of Lorraine Charles de Guise. These previous illustrious owners would explain the exceptional quality of the tapestries, woven in threads of wool, silk, gold and silver, and also the choice of the religious theme hidden under the veil of allegory.
The theme of all tapestries is that of Christian morality, of Sin and Redemption, of the eternal struggle between Good and Evil, and above each tapestry, within a border that is repeated almost the same in all 7, a cartouche with verses taken from the Bible or other religious works helps to understand the meaning of the scene depicted. Everything is rendered through images in which man does not appear at all; the living beings represented are only animals in scenes of everyday life, thus often in the act of hunting and killing other animals, but also in moments of tenderness towards their young. Evil is
represented by wild or mythical animals such as the unicorn, which, it should be noted, is obviously not the unicorn synonym of purity used as one of the most important symbols on the family coat of arms that the highest terrace of the grand Italian gardens that await us once we cross the threshold.


   

Taken in: Italy / Piedmont / Stresa / Isola Bella (show map)

Taken on: June 5, 2024

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