Merchants, princes and painters : silk fabrics in Italian and northern paintings, 1300-1550 / Lisa Monnas.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xi, 408 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0300111177
- 9780300111170
- Silk fabrics in Italian and northern paintings, 1300-1550
- 758.97460439 22
- ND1460.T49 M66 2008
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 758.97460439 MON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A379036B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-391) and index.
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 -- The transmission of textile designs in fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Netherlandish paintings -- Decorative silks in fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Italian paintings -- Textiles in portraits in Venice, Florence, and England -- Convention or reality? reading textiles in paintings -- A life of their own: the longevity and changing use of silk fabrics -- Nineteenth-century English textiles and wallpapers designed after fabrics shown in medieval and Renaissance paintings -- Appendices. Looms, textile types and historic terminology (includes glossaries of weaving, dress and painting terms, measurements and money) ; Letter of William Makefyrr, 1506 ; Vestments woven with Christ and St. Thomas in Rome and Florence ; Copes with named benefactors with dates attached, extracted from the ninety-one copes in the inventory of St. Paul's Cathedral, London ; The terms paonazzo and morello ; Letter concerning an order of clothing for the Contessa de Melzo, 1475 ; Carpets at the early Tudor court ; Abridged genealogy of the Medici family -- Tables. Selvedge colours on Italian silk fabrics, 1376-1466 ; Loom widths of Italian silks, thirteenth-sixteenth centuries ; Weaving prices specified by the Florentine silk guild, 1429 ; Prices of silk and wool from a wardrobe account of Edward IV, 1480 ; Prices of silk purchased for the great wardrobe of Henry VIII, 1533-1534 ; Textiles and clothing given to Dürer, purchased by him or given by him, on his journey to the Netherlands, 1520-1521 ; Neri di Bicci's Ricordanze: purchases of cloth, December 1453-January 1461 ; Extracts from the coronation account of Edward VI, 1547.
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