Tapestry Gallery, Palazzo Borromeo, Isola Bella
Tapestry Gallery, designed 1677 by Andrea Biffi, formerly a picture gallery, since 1886 housing a series of Flemish tapestries c. 1565, made by the workshop of Pieter Coecke van Aalst in Brussels, from cartoons by Michael Coxie and Willen Tons, in the Palazzo Borromeo, built 1632-1948 by the Borromeo family, on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The tapestries are theological, with animals illustrating evil, sin and redemption. The palazzo, begun 1632, was designed by Angelo Crivelli, for Carlo III Borromeo and his wife Isabella D'Adda, then completed by Carlo Fontana for Giberto III Borromeo and Vitaliano VI Borromeo. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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