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Merchants, princes and painters : silk fabrics in Italian and northern paintings, 1300-1550 /

Title:
Merchants, princes and painters : silk fabrics in Italian and northern paintings, 1300-1550 /
Author:
Monnas, Lisa.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Lesley Moriarty, MassArt, Museum of Fine Arts
Contents:
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.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Lesley-Moriarty Library Stacks
ND1460.T49 M66 2008 – Available
MassArt Main
ND1460.T49 M66 2008 – Available
MFA Textile and Fashion Arts Library
ND1460.T49 M66 2008 – Available