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Merchants, princes, and painters : silk fabrics in Italian and Northern paintings, 1300-1500 / Lisa Monnas.

By: Monnas, Lisa
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.Description: xi, 408 p. : ill. (col.) ; 29 cm.ISBN: 9780300111170Subject(s): Silk in art | Textile fabrics in art -- Catalogs | Painting, Italian | Painting, DutchDDC classification: 758/.97460439
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.
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Book Book British Museum Britain Europe and Prehistory Shelves RE 1.3 M (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 10002593
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Includes bibliography (p. 375-391) and index.

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.