Author: Margaret B. FreemanPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints in art
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The St. Martin Embroideries
Author: Margaret B. FreemanPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints in art
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The St. Martin embroideries : a fifteenth-century series illustrating the life and legend of St. Martin of Tours
Author: Margaret B. FreemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
The Book of Samplers
Author: Marguerite FawdryPublisher:
ISBN: 9780312090067
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
The Guennol Collection
Author: Ida Ely RubinPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991442
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Medieval Art from Private Collections
Author: The CloistersPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Embroidery and Lace
Author: Ernest LeféburePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Opus Anglicanum
Author: Tanya BenthamPublisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785008978
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 869
Book Description
Opus Anglicanum, 'English work', was one of the high arts of the Middle Ages, treasured and traded by princes and bishops across Europe. This practical guide explains how just two seemingly simple stitches – split stitch and underside couching – can give extraordinarily complex and sophisticated results that exploit the qualities of silk and gold thread. It introduces new techniques through fourteen projects that progress in difficulty. The book advises on shading, adding detail and authentic use of colour; gives in-depth instruction on stitching faces, hair and hands, as well as wings, animals and landscaping and includes detailed reproductions of original pieces, as well as some with a contemporary twist. The book concentrates on the heyday of Opus Anglicanum, from the twelfth century to the fourteenth, when mastery of this art was at its height.
The Old English Lives of St Martin of Tours
Author: Andre MertensPublisher: Göttingen University Press
ISBN: 3863953134
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
St Martin of Tours is one of Christianity’s major saints and his significance reaches far beyond the powerful radiance of his iconic act of charity. While the saint and his cult have been researched comprehensively in Germany and France, his cult in the British Isles proves to be fairly unexplored. Andre Mertens closes this gap for Anglo-Saxon England by editing all the age’s surviving texts on the saint, including a commentary and translations. Moreover, Mertens looks beyond the horizon of the surviving body of literary relics and dedicates an introductory study to an analysis of the saint’s cult in Anglo-Saxon England and his significance for Anglo-Saxon culture.
European Textiles
Author: Christa C. Mayer-ThurmanPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870999893
Category : Tapestry
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This volume catalogues the more than 250 textiles and objects made of fabric that were part of Robert Lehman's bequest to the Metropolitan Museum in 1975. Many of these textiles were used as hangings, covers, or upholstery to embellish the Lehmans' elegant townhouse in Manhattan. They represent sixty-five years of assembling, owning, and living with historic fabrics on a day-to-day basis, and they document an American style of living and interior decoration that has largely disappeared. Among the highlights of the collection are two series of embroidered roundels from fifteenth-century Flanders that illustrate the lives of Saints Martin and Catherine of Alexandria; four large tapestries, including the Last Supper after Bernaert van Orley that is arguably the finest Renaissance tapestry in an American collection; and a number of ecclesiastical vestments and panels of magnificent silks and velvets in an array of techniques and styles that span six centuries. Comparative illustrations supplement the catalogue entries. Glossary, bibliography, and index. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
High Fashion in the Church
Author: Pauline JohnstonePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000940209
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book focuses on second half of the twentieth century, for strange things have been happening in the church. It aim is to show something of the origins and use of the vestments themselves, and to traces the development of their decoration in the context of the arts.