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
Soldiers of Christ
Author: Thomas F. X. NoblePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271043350
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Embroidery and Lace
Author: Ernest LeféburePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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.
Stitch-opedia: The Only Embroidery Reference You'll Ever Need
Author: Helen Winthorpe KendrickPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312611595
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A reference guide to embroidery stitches.
Embroidery and lace
Author: Ernest Lef?burePublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5876797529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A handbook for amateurs, collectors, and general readers
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.
Jan van Eyck and Portugal's 'Illustrious Generation'
Author: Barbara von BarghahnPublisher: Pindar Press
ISBN: 1915837049
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 887
Book Description
This book investigates Jan Van Eyck's patronage by the Crown of Portugal and his role as diplomat-painter for the Duchy of Burgundy following his first voyage to Lisbon in 1428-1429, when he painted two portraits of Infanta Isabella, who became the third wife of Philip the Good in 1430. New portrait identifications are provided for the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) and its iconographical prototype, the lost Fountain of Life. These altarpieces are analysed with regard to King Joao I's conquest of Ceuta, achieved by his sons, who were hailed as an "illustrious generation." Strong family ties between the dynastic houses of Avis and Lancaster explain Lusitania's sustained fascination with Arthurian lore and the Grail quest. Several chapters of this book are overlaid with a chivalric veneer. A second "secret mission" to Portugal in 1437 by Jan van Eyck is postulated and this diplomatic visit is related to Prince Henry the Navigator's expedition to Tangier and King Duarte's attempts to forge an alliance with Alfonso V of Aragon. Late Eyckian commissions are reviewed in the light of this ill-fated crusade and additional new portraits are identified. The most significant artist of Renaissance Flanders appears to have been patronized as much by the House of Avis as by the Duchy of Burgundy. Barbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University and a specialist in the art history of Portugal, Spain, and their colonial dominions, as well as Flanders. In 1993, she was conferred O Grao Comendador in the Portuguese Order of Prince Henry the Navigator. She has spent nearly a decade completing research about Jan van Eyck's diplomatic visits to the Iberian Peninsula.