page_title: Point de Venise
hierarchical_section_title: Point de Venise
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of a Young man of the Chigi Family
context_page_description: Point de Venise is a Venetian needle lace from the 17th century characterized by scrolling floral patterns with additional floral motifs worked in relief. By the mid-seventeenth century, it had overtaken Flemish lace as the most desirable type of lace in contemporary European fashion.
context_section_description: Point de Venise (also Gros Point de Venise) is a Venetian needle lace from the 17th century characterized by scrolling floral patterns with additional floral motifs worked in relief (in contrast with the geometric designs of the earlier reticella). By the mid-seventeenth century, it had overtaken Flemish lace as the most desirable type of lace in contemporary European fashion.
caption: Portrait of a young man of the Chigi family wearing a gros point de Venise collar, 17th century[1]
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