Merchants, princes and painters silk fabrics in Italian and Northern paintings, 1300 - 1550

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 fifte...

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1. Verfasser: Monnas, Lisa (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: New Haven, Conn., London Yale Univ. Press 2008
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:XI, 408 S.
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29 cm
ISBN:9780300111170
978-0-300-11117-0
0300111177
0-300-11117-7