Hingebung:

German: devotion

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Brabant tapestry: * see Endnote 54

Brabant (Dutchy) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire  (capital Brussels), established 1183; in the heart of the historic Low Countries, part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482, until it was partitioned after the Dutch revolt.  Its tapestry weaving workshops produced tapestry from at least the 15th century; after 1477 Brussels tapestry prospered following the sack of Arras & the inheritance of Brabant by the Habsburgs; the great period of Renaissance weaving in Brussels dates from 1515-19 when Pope Leo X commissioned the Acts of the Apostles tapestry after cartoons by Raphael; the workshops already boasted a high technical quality, these works fully embraced monumental pictorial representations using perspective for the first time in this medium.