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DESCRIPTION:Tristan Weddigen will be coming to speak in the Seminar in\nCul
 tural History Tuesday\, February 8\, 2010\, on “The Warp and Weft of Histo
 ry:\nRaphael and Le Brun Reflecting on the Textile Medium.”\n\nTristan Wed
 digen is Professor for the History of Early\nModern Art at the University 
 of Zurich. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Art\nHistory from the Technis
 che Universität\, Berlin. He has taught as the\nUniversity of Lausanne and
  the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts\,\nSwitzerland\, and 
 has been Visiting Lecturer at the Technische Universität\,\nDresden\, the 
 Freie Universität\, Berlin\, and the La Sapienza in Rome. Dr. Weddigen\nha
 s been the recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship\n(2
 004-6) and Getty Research Institute Scholarship (2009). He is currently th
 e\nproject leader for the Universität Zürich research initiative “An Icono
 logy of\nthe Textile in Art and Architecture\,” sponsored by the Swiss Nat
 ional Science\nFoundation (2008-2012) and the European Research Council (2
 009-2013).\n\n Dr. Weddigen is the author of Raffaels\nPapageienzimmer: Ri
 tual\, Raumfunktionen und Dekorationen im Vatikanpalast der\nRenaissance (
 2006)\, a study of Raphael’s Parrot Room at the Vatican\nPalace. He is als
 o the editor of The Textile Medium in Early Modern Art (2010)\, Metatextil
 e:\nIdentity and History of a Contemporary Art Medium (2010) and joint edi
 tor\nof Zweite Haut. Zur Kulturgeschichte der Kleidung (2009) and Science
 \n& Fiction. Imagination und Realität des Weltraums (2009).\n\nDr. Weddige
 n’s talk is entitled\, “The Warp and Weft of\nHistory: Raphael and Le Brun
  Reflecting on the Textile Medium.” In early modern\nEurope\, figurative t
 apestries were amongst the most expensive and valued works\nof fine art. U
 nfortunately\, this importance is not mirrored in art theory in\nthose tim
 es. So\, what do tapestries say visually about themselves? Did early\nmode
 rn artists reflect on the textile medium\, as they did on painting\,\nscul
 pture\, and architecture? This paper investigates some aspects of the earl
 y\nmodern discourse of the textile image. It focuses on Charles Le Brun's 
 famous\nHistoire du Roi and on its great model\, Raphael's Acts of the Apo
 stles for the\nSistine Chapel. The paper shows how Le Brun's tapestries re
 veal the functions\nand the status of their own medium in relation to the 
 paradigm of painting.\nFinally\, it embeds the production of the Gobelins 
 in the cultural policy of\nLouis XIV and shows how the tapestries form the
  warp and weft of the Sun King’s\nhistory.\n\nPlease RSVP and join us in t
 he Lecture Hall at 38 West 86th\nStreet\, between Columbus Ave and Central
  Park West\, at 5:45pm for a reception\nbefore the talk.
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