For all seven hundred years of their tradition, wall hanging tapestries have depicted the themes or subjects of their time and place. For the first 400 years or so, the weaving ateliers were entirely patronized by the wealthy nobility. They chose medieval themes ranging from nature and peasant life to war victories, consorts with the gods, hunting and fishing and various classical and religious subjects. In the last 300 years or so, with the rise of the merchant and professional classes, themes became as fashionable as clothing. Subjects of this wall art varied from a taste for the romantic, leisurely as perpetuated by the French courts of Louis XIV to tranquil landscapes, called verdures, to purely decorative and fanciful grotesques, through to the arts and crafts revival of William Morris designs in the Victorian period. At their height, entire rooms or 'chambers' of tapestries were decorated with tapestries woven for each wall, for spaces above, between and across grand windows and doors, and as upholstery for furniture.