Tapestry No. 3. The miracle of the paralytic.
Tapestry No. 4. The death of Ananias.
Tapestry No. 5. The death of St. Stephen.
Tapestry No. 6. The conversion of St. Paul.
Tapestry No. 7. The blindness of Elymas.
Tapestry No. 8. St. Paul and St. Barnabas at Lystra.
Tapestry No. 9. St. Paul preaches at the Areopagus in Athens.
Group 19. Vertumnus and Pomona (6 Tapestries)
Despite an occasional lapse in drawing, this series of tapestries is one of the finest examples of pure Renaissance workmanship to be found in the Spanish royal collection. The story, of course, is taken from Ovid, and was a favourite one with the Flemish weavers. The tapestries show the true Renaissance love of the open country and lovely gardens with a wealth of flowers and foliage. They are purely decorative in intention, and the figures are merely accessory.
No less than four copies of this series are in the Madrid collection. The series reproduced in this volume was woven at Brussels and purchased by the Emperor Charles V. at Anvers in 1546. It is in silk and wool, heavily enriched with gold, and was the original from which the others were copied.