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Author: Frances Lennard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0750661844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTapestry Conservation: Principles and Practice explores current practice and recent research in tapestry conservation, promoting awareness of recent developments among conservators and custodians of tapestries. The book facilitates more informed conservation practice and decision-making, and helps custodians to select the most appropriate method of intervention.
Author: Institut royal du patrimoine artistique (Belgium)
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 1990-01-18
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 0892361549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors discuss current research, new findings, and specific problems, innovations, methods, and materials.
Author: Stefan Huygebaert
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-09-27
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 3319907875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributions to this volume were written by historians, legal historians and art historians, each using his or her own methods and sources, but all concentrating on topics from the broad subject of historical legal iconography. How have the concepts of law and justice been represented in (public) art from the Late Middle Ages onwards? Justices and rulers had their courtrooms, but also churches, decorated with inspiring images. At first, the religious influence was enormous, but starting with the Early Modern Era, new symbols and allegories began appearing. Throughout history, art has been used to legitimise the act of judging, but artists have also satirised the law and the lawyers; architects and artisans have engaged in juridical and judicial projects and, in some criminal cases, convicts have even been sentenced to produce works of art. The book illustrates and contextualises the various interactions between law and justice on the one hand, and their artistic representations in paintings, statues, drawings, tapestries, prints and books on the other.
Author: Thomas P. Campbell
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 1588390225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTapestries--the art form of kings--were a principal tool used by powerful Renaissance rulers to convey their wealth and might. From 1460 to 1560, courts and churches lavished vast sums on costly weavings in silk and gold thread from designs by leading artists. In this lavishly illustrated book, the first major survey of tapestry production of this period, contributors analyze some of these & beautiful tapestries, examine the stylistic and technical development of tapestry production in the Low Countries, France, and Italy during the Renaissance, and discuss the contribution that the medium made to art, liturgy, and propaganda of the day.
Author: Tina Kane
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1843835703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst English translation of a late fifteenth century manuscript containing instructions for designing a medieval tapestry - the only such to survive. The "Troyes Mémoire", a late fifteenth-century manuscript preserved in the archives of the town of Troyes, France, is the sole surviving example of the written instructions used in designing tapestries during the Middle Ages. It is unique in its presentation of detailed information on how patrons and church officials communicated complex iconographic material to the medieval artists commissioned to paint cartoons for tapestries. It is here translated intoEnglish for the first time, with full introduction and extensive notes. The volume also includes a translation of another richly informative document from medieval Troyes: the Account Books of the Church of Sainte-Madeleine, whichintroduces us to the actual people who worked together, between 1416 and 1430, to produce a set of tapestries for the town's oldest church. They shed important new light on an era when tapestry represented a supreme form of art. Tina Kane is Conservator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Textile Conservation.
Author: Susan G. Bell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-11-29
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0520234103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSusan Bell recounts her thirty-year search for tapestries based on Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies (1405) that were listed as possessions of 16th C. European rulers, mostly women.
Author: Dr Margaret Ponsonby
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-12-28
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1472424670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking National Trust properties as its central focus, this book examines three interlocking themes to examine the role of historic textiles. It looks at houses with preserved contents together with the reasons for individual families choosing this lifestyle, the role of the National Trust as both guardian and interpreter of these houses and their collections, and finally, the influence of textiles to contribute to the appearance of interiors, and their physical attributes that carry historical resonances of the past.
Author: Harlan Walker
Publisher: Oxford Symposium
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0907325467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edith Appleton Standen
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 0870994069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTapestry making flourished in the major centers of western Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Thousands of tapestries were woven as special commissions for church, crown, and nobility. This publication is a comprehensive catalogue of the Museum's collection of tapestries and allied works made after the Middle Ages.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author: Elizabeth Morrison
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1606065904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--and an exploration of its lasting legacy. Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures such as the unicorn, siren, and griffin; exotic beasts including the tiger, elephant, and ape; as well as animals native to Europe like the beaver, dog, and hedgehog, the bestiary is a vibrant testimony to the medieval understanding of animals and their role in the world. So iconic were the stories and images of the bestiary that its beasts essentially escaped from the pages, appearing in a wide variety of manuscripts and other objects, including tapestries, ivories, metalwork, and sculpture. With over 270 color illustrations and contributions by twenty-five leading scholars, this gorgeous volume explores the bestiary and its widespread influence on medieval art and culture as well as on modern and contemporary artists like Pablo Picasso and Damien Hirst. Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center May 14 to August 18, 2019.
