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Bernard Van Orley’s Les chasses de Maximilien (1531-1533)

Bernard Van Orley’s Les chasses de Maximilien (1531-1533)

Van Orley’s The Month of June is part of a series of tapestries called The Hunts of Maximilian [Les Chasses de Maximilien. The June episode depicts an elaborate Orley halt on the hunt [halte de chasse]at which Archduke Maximillian (later Emperor of Austria) is...

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