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"title": "Millefleurs Tapestry with Medici Coat of Arms",
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"title": "Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage",
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"title": "Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses",
"description": "Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9, 2025-February 1, 2026).",
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"description": "Many identifiable flowering plants provide the French name, millefleur, for this pattern, which became fashionable around 1450. Each plant may have symbolized either religion, courtship, or morals. However, many millefleur tapestries, made for about 100 years, were probably not symbolic. Large quantities were woven only with flowers; some also incorporated birds and animals or, in this case, coats of arms. Here, the original coat of arms has been replaced by that of the Medicis, a prominent family in Renaissance Florence.",
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"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141015"
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"citation": "Standen, Edith A. \"The Carpet of Arms.\" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 20, no. 7 (1962): 221-31.",
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"url": "doi:10.2307/3257912"
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"citation": "Asselberghs, Jeen Paul. Les tapisseries flamandes aux E\u0301tats-Unis d'Ame\u0301rique. Bruxelles: Muse\u0301es royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1974.",
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"citation": "Hattori, Teruko \u670d\u90e8\u7167\u5b50. Yo\u0304roppa no seikatsu bijutsu to fukushoku bunka. I, I [\u30e8\u30fc\u30ed\u30c3\u30d1\u306e\u751f\u6d3b\u7f8e\u8853\u3068\u670d\u98fe\u6587\u5316. I, \u30b4\u30b7\u30c3\u30af\u30bf\u30d4\u30b9\u30ea\u30fc\u3068\u670d\u98fe]. Tokyo: Genryu\u0304sha, 1986.",
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"citation": "Peri, Paolo and Nello Forti Grazzini. The \"Millefiori\" Tapestry of Pistoia. Pistoia: Gli ori, 2016.",
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