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Samantha Taylor Needlepoint Kits for Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum - Memling Motif Kit - Needlepoint Beginner Kits

Memling Motif - ( 12 mesh ) - 4.8 x 5.4 inches - ( 12 x 13.8 cm ) - Copyright 2001 Jan Voich

Beginner Needlepoint Kits for Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum - Memling Motif Kit - Samantha Taylor created this design after a Hans Memling Painting seen on this page. The original painting is in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. The Kits are sold in the Museum Store - a great Beginners Project

Memling Motif Needlepoint Kit - Color combinations may be selected to fit decorations. Shown is the back of the packaged needlepoint kit with a reproduction of the Original painting titled Vase of Flowers c. 1485 by Hans Memling. Instructions are written in both English and Spanish - with detailed diagrams for a beginner.

In this painting - we discovered the three rows of Guls - containing different shaped crosses and separated by diamond-stems. This still life painting has on its reverse side the portrait of a man and is at the same time the recto of a closed diptych - most likely for the adoration of the Virgin Mary.

In reading this still life - the Christian Symbolism is not to be overlooked. In the pilgrim´s vase we find together several floral symbols for the Virgin Mary: lilies - irises and columbines ( divine grace - innocence - forgiveness and yearning to be with God ). These symbols make up an essential part of the border of a number of paradise-gate carpets.

The earliest depiction of this type of carpet is to be found somewhat earlier in the book of hours of an unknown French Master from around 1460. In a scene King René of Anjou´s novel Cuer d´Amour Apris - we find a Memling Gul Carpet depicted beside a cross-block carpet. Judging from this picture - it is a long - narrow runner - containing two sets of five Memling Guls - each in turn filled with cross stars. In the negative area between the Guls we find diamonds filled with crosses - the diamonds being joined together along the central vertical axis by cross pieces which form stems. The border contains the familiar opposed cross-leaf halves.

About the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection

As you know - The Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Collection is considered the finest in the World. Heir to the great Thyssen steel fortune - Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza used a splendid villa on the shores of lake Lugano to display some paintings from his extraordinary collection.

Perhaps due to the Spanish origins of his fifth wife - Carmen Cevera - nearly 800 paintings from his collection were loaned to Spain for a decade and are now permanently located in the Villahermosa Palace in Madrid. A grand neoclassical structure from the early 19th century - the palacio was renovated to house the collection at a cost to the Spanish government of some $45 million. 100 additional works are exhibited in Barcelona.

The Beginner Needlepoint Kits includes detailed instructions in both English and Spanish. Choose the Initials link ( above left ) - to view other great kits for beginning projects.

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A Special Edition of Memling Motif Kits are now available in

The Frick Collection

Memling*s Portraits Exhibition

Needlepoint Designs by Samantha Taylor and Samantha Taylor are Trade marks of Jan Voich and Associates, SL All Rights Reserved.