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Musée des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence, France

  • Address 28 Place des Martyrs de la Résistance
    13100 Aix-en-Provence
    France
  • Phone number+33 4 4223 0991
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This museum is mainly concerned with tapestries from the royal tapestry makers of Beauvais. Pieces dating from the 17th and 18th Centuries include Don Quichotte, Grotesques, and Jeux Russiens. In 1998 an entire department and its exhibits were devoted to the performing arts. You can also find bel canto, models of sets, working notes and costumes for operas that inspired such prestigious artists as Balthus, Derain and Casandra.

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“Spartan, deserted & in need of renovation”

 by  joen.dk  on  2005-10-15

The museum is worn down and the "tapestry collections" only consist in two series: a sequence of three rather ornamental works and the Don Quix...

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