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A tale of two velvets in works by Jaume Huguet and Piero della Francesca

07/2023 | 1444 | 165

Pages: 713–719

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Author:

Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)

Subjects

artists:

Huguet, Jaume / Piero della Francesca

dates:

1450-1499

subjects:

Spanish painting / Italian painting / Altarpieces / Textiles / Velvets / Brocade / Ecclesiastical vestments

subjects:

Thistles (motifs) / Carda, Ottaviano Ubaldini della (1423–98)

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1. Consecration of St Augustine, by Jaume Huguet. c.1463–75. Tempera on panel, 250 by 193 cm. (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona).

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10. Detail from Meeting between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, by Piero della Francesca. 1452–56. Fresco. (S. Francesco, Arezzo; Bridgeman Images).

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4. Flagellation of Christ, by Piero della Francesca. c.1456–57. Egg tempera and oil on panel, 67.5 by 91 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; Bridgeman Images).

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5. Detail of Fig.4, showing the figure in the right foreground dressed in blue.

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6. Detail of Fig.1, showing the figure in the right foreground wearing a green cope.

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9. Detail of Fig.1, showing the same sprig motif as in Fig.8.

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2. Blue velvet cloth of gold of tissue. Italy, 1450–75. 126 by 57 cm. (repeat 84.5 by 57 cm.). (Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg; photograph Christoph von Viràg).

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3. Panel of green velvet cloth of gold of tissue (three loom widths sewn together). Italy, third quarter of the fifteenth century, 110 by 239 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

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7. Blue velvet cloth with two heights of cut-silk pile, voided and brocaded with gold. Italy, c.1450–70. 96.8 by 41.8 cm. (repeat, 65.5 by 28.5 cm.). (Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg; photograph Christoph von Viràg).

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8. Detail of Fig.3, showing the sprig motif.

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Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe c.800–1200, M.C. Miller

09/2015 | 1350 | 157

Pages: 632-633

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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)

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dates:

0800-1199

subjects:

Ecclesiastical vestments / Costume / Early Christian

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Western art unattributed:

44. A bishop's rationale, seen from behind, over a later silk vestment. c.1050 (Cathedral Treasury, Bamberg; on deposit at the Diözesanmuseum Bamberg)

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An Early Italian textile drawing in the Victoria and Albert Museum

06/2008 | 1263 | 150

Pages: 389-392

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An early Italian textile drawing in the Victoria and Albert Museum

06/2008 | 1263 | 150

Pages: 389-392

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Coutts, Howard (Coutts, Howard)

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Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)

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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)

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museums and institutions:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain

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Textiles

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Italian art

subjects:

Drawings / Silks / Textiles / Design / Collections, Public / Italian

Illustrations

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19. Silk design (recto), Venetian or Lucchese. Second half of the fourteenth century. Brown ink on vellum, 11.6 by 15 cm. (Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York).

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23. Fragment of lampas silk. (Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg; from O. von Falke: Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei, Berlin 1913).

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24. Detail of the lampas silk of a dalmatic. (Cathedral, Halberstadt; from O. von Falke: Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei, Berlin 1913).

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25. Fragment of lampas silk, mounted on card, with a watercolour reconstruction of 1892. 21.7 by 37 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

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26. Detail of a reconstruction of fragments of lampas silk (from O. von Falke: Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei, Berlin 1913).

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27. Detail of a vestment of lampas silk woven with the penitent Magdalene (from O. von Falke: Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei, Berlin 1913).

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Above: 21. Silk design, verso of Fig.19.

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Below: 20. Silk design (recto), Venetian or Lucchese. Second half of the fourteenth century. Brown ink on vellum, 17.3 by 14.0/14.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

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Below: 22. Silk design, verso of Fig.20.

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New Documents for the Vestments of Henry VII at Stonyhurst College

05/1989 | 1034 | 131

Pages: 345-349

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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)

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dates:

1450-1499

patrons:

Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509

places:

England

subjects:

Textiles / Costume / Copes

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Documents

Illustrations

Western art unattributed:

31. Cope Commissioned by Henry VII. Cloth of Gold with Orphrey Hood and Morse of Applied Embroidery; Warp Direction Left to Right. 148.5 by 314.9 cm. (Stonyhurst College, Lancashire).

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32. Chasuble Commissioned by Henry VII, Front View. Cloth of Gold with Applied Orphrey Cross Made up of Embroidery together with Fragments of Woven Material from Part of the Same Set of Vestments. 112 by 69.2 cm. (Stonyhurst College, Lancashire).

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33. Rear View of Fig. 32. [Chasuble Commissioned by Henry VII, Front View. Cloth of Gold with Applied Orphrey Cross Made up of Embroidery together with Fragments of Woven Material from Part of the Same Set of Vestments. 112 by 69.2 cm. (Stonyhurst College, Lancashire).]

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34. Detail of the Cope Shown in Fig.31, Showing a Section of the Portcullis. Two Colours of Silver Boucle Wefts, Outlined in Crimson Cut Silk Pile on a Ground Brocaded with Gold Thread. (Stonyhurst College, Lancashire).

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