Merchants, princes, and painters
Subtitle: silk fabrics in Italian and Northern paintings, 1300-1500
By: Lisa Monnas.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300111170
Subjects: Silk in art; Textile fabrics in art; Painting, Italian; Painting, Dutch
Table of contents: title: Introduction: silk; title: Who wore silk? the price of silk fabrics, artists' clothing and studio props; title: Painters and the design of woven silks; title: Cloth of gold in fourteenth-century Sienese and Florentine paintings; title: Painting velvet in Italy and the Netherlands during the first half of the fifteenth century; title: Transmission of textile designs in fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Netherlandish painting; title: Decorative silks and draped figures in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italian painting; title: Textiles in portrait in Venice, Florence and England, 1500-1550; title: Convention or reality? reading textiles in paintings, symbolic meaning, conventional models and direct observation; title: Life of their own: the longevity and changing use of silk fabrics, as reflected in paintings; title: Epilogue: nineteenth-century English textiles and wallpapers designed after fabrics shown in Medieval and Renaissance paintings.