Merchants, Princes, and Painters : : Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings, 1300-1500
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Introduction: silk -- Who wore silk? the price of silk fabrics, artists' clothing and studio props -- Painters and the design of woven silks -- Cloth of gold in fourteenth-century Sienese and Florentine paintings -- Painting velvet in Italy and the Netherlands during the first half of the fifteenth century -- Transmission of textile designs in fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Netherlandish painting -- Decorative silks and draped figures in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italian painting -- Textiles in portrait in Venice, Florence and England, 1500-1550 -- Convention or reality? reading textiles in paintings, symbolic meaning, conventional models and direct observation -- Life of their own: the longevity and changing use of silk fabrics, as reflected in paintings -- Epilogue: nineteenth-century English textiles and wallpapers designed after fabrics shown in Medieval and Renaissance paintings.
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PUBLISHED
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: xi, 408 p. ; ill. ; 30 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780300111170 (cl : alk. paper)
0300111177 (cl : alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Silk in art.
Textile fabrics in art.
Painting, Italian.
Painting, Dutch.