Threads of Power: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries 

This lecture inaugurates the exhibition Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries. Thomas Campbell is a world expert on tapestry and the author of the principal essay in the exhibition’s richly illustrated catalog. He introduces the audience to the preeminence of tapestry as an artistic medium in the Renaissance and to this sumptuous cycle of Flemish tapestries depicting an epic battle in life-size action.