Eternal Spring

Eternal Spring. Gardens and Tapestries in the Renaissance brings the splendour and magnificence of lush Renaissance gardens to life with imposing tapestries and other art treasures.

In the Renaissance, sumptuous but meticulously ordered gardens affirmed man’s rule over nature. But time, however, demands humility from every gardener. After all, the beauty of a garden is transient and subject to seasonal change. For that reason, artists try like no other to capture nature in artworks, to create an eternal spring. The most remarkable presentations of the lush Renaissance gardens are to be found in sixteenth-century Flemish tapestries. Thanks to their monumental dimensions, the use of precious materials such as gold and silk and the unparalleled knowledge and skill of the workshops, tapestries are the ideal medium to depict the overwhelming splendour of burgeoning nature.