Urgande Handing over the Lance to Amadis
by SPIERING, François, Gold thread, wool and silk on a woolen warp, 348 x 328 cm
This tapestry is from a series on the theme of Amadis de Gaule, a chivalric romance that was extremely popular in Europe during the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth. The series was designed by Karel van Mander the Elder whose monogram KVM is carried by some of the tapestries.