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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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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
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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.
Western art unattributed:
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).
Western art unattributed:
8. Detail of Fig.3, showing the sprig motif.
Article
A sartorial portrait of Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda by Piero della Francesca
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 720–737
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Brüggen Israëls, Machtelt (Brüggen Israëls, Machtelt)
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1. Flagellation of Christ with figures here identified as Joseph of Arimathea and an assistant asking Pilate for the body 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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10. Detail of the Communion of the Apostles, by Justus of Ghent, showing the donor figures. 1473–74. Oil on panel. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; Scala Archives; courtesy the Ministero Beni e Attività Culturali e del Turismo).
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11. Horsewoman of Coins, by the workshop of Bonifacio Bembo. Before 1447. Paint and tooled gold on paper, 18.9 by 9 cm. (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Library, New Haven CT).
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12. Detail from St Gregory the Great and St Matthias, by Masolino, showing the cope of St Gregory the Great. c.1428–29. Tempera and oil on panel, transferred to fibreboard. (National Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda and Federico di Montefeltro, by Ambrogio Barocci. 1470s. Cesane stone, 50 by 110 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino).
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3. Detail of Fig.4, showing the donor figures, Guidubaldo di Montefeltro, Count Federico di Montefeltro and Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda.
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4. The Lamentation of Christ, by Francesco di Giorgio. c.1473. Bronze, 85 by 58 cm. (S. Maria del Carmelo, Venice; Scala Archives).
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5. Medal of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti (obverse), by Pisanello. c.1441. Bronze, diameter 10.3 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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6. Detail of an altar frontal with the Visconti device of the dove and motto ‘à bon droit’. Italy, c.1450–60. Red velvet with a single-height pile with a design in gold pattern wefts and silver brocaded wefts, 98 by 241 cm. (Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan; Scala Archive).
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7. Federico di Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, and his son Guidubaldo, by Pedro Berruguete. c.1476. Oil on panel, 138 by 82.5 cm. (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino).
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8. Luca Pacioli and Guidubaldo di Montefeltro, attributed to Jacopo de’ Barbari. 1495. Oil on panel, 99 by 120 cm. (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples; Photo Scala, Florence).
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9. Detail of Fig.1, showing the figures here identified as Joseph of Arimathea and an assistant asking Pilate for the body of Christ.
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13. Detail of a cope with the Medici coat of arms and devices. Italy, 1470s or 1480s. Red velvet with single-height cut pile with a design in gold bouclé pattern wefts and allucciolato effect, 278 by 152 cm. (Museo d’arte sacra dell’Abbazia di Vallombrosa).
Western art unattributed:
14. Detail of the cope shown in Fig.13 with the motif of the Medici coat of arms covered by a roundel of St Giovanni Gualberto embroidered in silk and gold. Italy, c.1494.
Book Review
Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 1040-1041
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Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
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Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820 By Maya Stanfield-Mazzi. 408 pp. incl. 186 col. + b. & w. ills. (University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, 2021), £33. ISBN 978–0– 268–10805–2. | :
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Non-western art unattributed:
7. Mitre showing the Tree of Jesse. Mexico, c.1550. Feather mosaic, silk. 45.5 by 29 cm. (Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna).
Book Review
Der Schatz der Marienkirche zu Danzig: Liturgische Gewänder und textile Objekte aus dem späten Mittelalter (Berner Forschungen zur Geschichte der textilen Künste, 1)
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 635-637
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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
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Der Schatz der Marienkirche zu Danzig: Liturgische Gewänder und textile Objekte aus dem späten Mittelalter (Berner Forschungen zur Geschichte der textilen Künste, 1) By Birgitt Borkopp-Restle. 392 pp. incl. 191 col. + 156 b. & w. ills. (Didymos, Affalterbach, 2020), €48. ISBN 978–3–939020–71–4. | :
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4. Virgin and Child, detail of the side of a funeral pall. 15th-century Italian silk velvet, possibly embroidered in Germany in the second half of the 15th century with silk and gold thread, pearls, coral and metal sequins. (St Anne’s Museum, Lübeck).
Book Review
Arrayed in Splendour: Art, Fashion, and Textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Undressing Rubens: Fashion and Painting in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp
02/2021 | 1415 | 163
Pages: 185-186
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Griffey, Erin (Griffey, Erin)
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Arrayed in Splendour: Art, Fashion, and Textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Edited by Christoph Brachmann. 264 pp. incl. 111 col. + 3 b. & w. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2019), £85. ISBN 978–2–503–57965–8. | :
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Undressing Rubens: Fashion and Painting in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Edited by Abigail D. Newman and Lieneke Nijkamp. 232 pp. incl. 136 col. + 3 b. & w. ills. (Harvey Miller, London, 2019), £115. ISBN 978–1–912554–22–5. | :
Exhibition Review
The Treasure of Mü nster: precious reliquaries and works of art from the Domkammer
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1087-1088
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Wytema, Charlotte (Wytema, Charlotte )
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Der Schatz von Münster: Wertvolle Reliquiare und Kunstwerke aus der Domkammer / The Treasure of Mü nster: precious reliquaries and works of art from the Domkammer Edited by Udo Grote. 280 pp. incl. numerous col. ills. (Aschendorff, Münster, 2019), €29.90. ISBN 978– 3–402–13399–6. | :
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4. Head reliquary of St Paul. Northwest Germany, third quarter of the eleventh century, with additions from the second quarter of the thirteenth century. Oak wood core with gold, silver, copper; inlaid with filigree, stones and pearls, 22.4 by 12.2 by 7.2 cm. (Domkammer, St Paul’s Cathedral, Münster; exh. Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht; photograph Stephan Kube).
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5. Reliquary cross. Western German, second half of the eleventh century, re-using first- and ninth/ tenth-century components. Wood core with gold and precious stones and rock crystal base, 22.6 by 13 cm. (Domkammer, St Paul’s Cathedral, Münster; exh. Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht; photograph Stephan Kube).
Book Review
Trésors des Cathédrales. Edited by Judith Kagan and Marie-Anne Sire
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 75-76
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Milner, Lesley (Milner, Lesley)
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Trésors des Cathédrales Edited by Judith Kagan and Marie-Anne Sire. 320 pp. incl. 350 ills. (Éditions du Patrimoine, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, 2019), £72. ISBN 978–2–7577–0618–3. | :
Exhibition Review
The age of the Merovingians. Paris
04/2017 | 1369 | 159
Pages: 336-337
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Nees, Lawrence (Nees, Lawrence)
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74. Detail of the head of the Crozier of St Germain of Moutier-Grandval. Second half of the seventh century (Musée jurassien d'Art et d'Histoire, Delémont; exh. Musée de Cluny, Paris)
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75. Chasuble of St Bathilde from Chelles. Second half of the seventh century (Musée Alfred-Bonno, Chelles; exh. Musée de Cluny, Paris)
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76. The Letter and Sermons of St Augustine. Luxeuil. Late seventh-early eighth centuries (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Lat. 11641, fol.8v.; exh. Musée de Cluny, Paris)
Publication Received
Middeleeuwse Borduurkunst uit de Nederlanden. Edited by Micha Leeflang and Kees van Schooten.
02/2017 | 1367 | 159
Pages: 146
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Duits, Rembrandt (Duits, Rembrandt)
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Liturgische Gewänder in der Schwarzen Kirche zu Kronstadt in Siebenbürgen (Liturgical vestments in the Black Church at Kronstadt in Siebenbürgen), by Evelin Wetter, with contributions by Corinna Kienzler and Ágnes Ziegler and weave analysis by Corinna Kienzler
09/2016 | 1362 | 158
Pages: 747
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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
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