a tapestry in the series is the Allegory of Music (Hermitage Museum). In the centre of the upper border of this tapestry is a cartouche with the inscription: Artes Deprifit bellum agvibus sustinatus ("War oppresses the arts which support it"), also designed by Cornelis Schut. The cartoons were woven repeatedly in Bruges between 1655-1675. They were also woven in the Brussels workshops. Collaborations As was common in 17th-century Antwerp, Schut often collaborated with other artists who were specialist painters. He added figures to the compositions of the painter of church interiors Pieter Neefs the Elder. Schut collaborated with flower painters such as Daniel Seghers and Frans Ykens on so-called 'garland paintings'. Garland paintings are a type of still life invented in Antwerp and whose earliest practitioner was Jan Brueghel the Elder. These paintings typically show a flower garland around a devotional image or portrait. Garland paintings were usually collaborations between a still life and a figure painter.<ref>Ursula Härting, Review of Susan Merriam, Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings. Still Life, Vision and the Devotional Image]</ref> An example of a collaboration between Schut and a flower painter on a garland painting is the composition Birth of the red rose (Staatliches Museum Schwerin) in which the figures in the center were painted by Schut and the flower garland was painted by Frans Ykens. His compositions were engraved by leading Antwerp engravers including Hans Witdoeck, Wenceslaus Hollar and Lucas Vorsterman although he was an accomplished etcher himself. Cornelis made etchings after his own works. For instance, he made a series of etchings on the theme of the liberal arts which are similar to his designs for cartoons on the same subject. He also created many small, decorative etchings of naked children or putti. Collections Works by Cornelis Schut are in the collections of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City and the Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn.Cornelis Schut in the Art Museum of Estonia References Further reading Vlieghe, Hans (1998). [https://books.google.com/books?id=AS_NXFoY0M4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585-1700. Pelican History of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press. Hairs M.-L., Dans le sillage de Rubens: les peintres d'histoire anversois au XVIIe siècle'', Bibliothèque de la Faculté de philosophie et lettres de l'Université de Liège. Publications exceptionnelles. 4, 1977 External links Flemish Baroque painters Flemish history painters 1597 births 1655 deaths Painters from Antwerp Members of the Bentvueghels Artists from Antwerp