The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries by Philip Sutton, Miguel Angel de Bunes Ibarra
The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries

Philip Sutton, Miguel Angel de Bunes Ibarra

The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries

Philip Sutton, Miguel Angel de Bunes Ibarra

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Commissioned in the 1470s most likely by Afonso V, king of Portugal, the Pastrana Tapestries are a group of four towering (12 by 36 feet each) tapestries memorialising his conquest of the Moroccan cities of Asilah and Tangier, near the entrance to...

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