Editing Tapestry (section)

===Hunting===
Hunting scenes were also very popular.  These were usually given no specific setting, although sometimes the commissioner and other figures might be given portraits.  The four [[Devonshire Hunting Tapestries]] (1430–1450, V&A), probably made in Arras, are perhaps the largest set of 15th-century survivals, showing the hunting of bears, boars, deer, swans, otters, and falconry.  Very fashionably dressed ladies and gentlemen stroll around beside the slaughter. [[Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow|Another set]], from after 1515, show a similar late-medieval style, although partly made with silk, so extra-expensive.

But the twelve pieces in ''[[Les Chasses de Maximilien]]'' (1530s, Louvre), made in Brussels for a Habsburg patron, show an advanced Renaissance compositional style adapted to tapestries.  These have a hunting scene for each month in the year, and also show specific locations around the city.  Goya was still designing hunting scenes in the 1770s.