  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  Saint Paul Defending Himself before Agrippa
  
  
  Artwork Date
  designed ca. 1529-1530, probably woven before 1546
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Pieter Coecke van Aelst  (Designer)
  Netherlandish, 1502-1550
  Jan van der Vyst (probably woven under his direction) (Weaver)
  Netherlandish
  
  
  
  Medium
  Wool and silk
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 165 inches &Atilde;&#151; 23 feet 7 inches (4 m 19.1 cm &Atilde;&#151; 7 m 18.8 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Tapestries
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  24.29
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
  
  
  
