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Book Review
Veiled Presence: Body and Drapery from Giotto to Titian. By Paul Hills
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 77-78
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Reviewer:
Poeschke, Joachim (Poeschke, Joachim)
Subjects
subjects:
Italian painting / Italian sculpture / Renaissance art / Textiles / Cloth / Nudes / Dress / Metaphor / Religious art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Veiled Presence: Body and Drapery from Giotto to Titian By Paul Hills. 224 pp. incl. 147 col. + b. & w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2018), £45. ISBN 978–0–300–23675–0. | :
Exhibition Review
Anni Albers. Tate Modern, London
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 74-77
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Reviewer:
Darwent, Charles (Darwent, Charles)
Subjects
artists:
Albers, Anni
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Textiles / Prints / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Tate Modern, London, Great Britain / Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
places:
Germany / Düsseldorf / Great Britain / London
subjects:
Bauhaus / Design / Decorative arts / Cloth / Cotton / Weaving / Exhibitions / Installations (exhibitions) / Critical Reception
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Knot, by Anni Albers. 1947. Gouache on paper, 43.2 by 51 cm. (Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; © 2018 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; exh. Tate Modern, London).
Attributed works:
23. Intersecting, by Anni Albers. 1962. Pictorial weaving, cotton and rayon, 40 by 41.9 cm. (Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop; © 2018 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; exh. Tate Modern, London).
Attributed works:
24. Eclat, by Anni Albers. 1974. Silkscreen on woven fabric, 30 by 45 cm. (Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; © 2018 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; exh. Tate Modern, London).
Book Review
Seta Oro Cremisi: Segreti e tecnologia alla corte dei Visconti e degli Sforza
11/2010 | 1292 | 152
Pages: 747-748
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Reviewer:
Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
Subjects
dates:
1390-1399 / 1400-1549
museums and institutions:
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
patrons:
Visconti, Filippo Maria / Sforza family / Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1452-1508 / Beatrice d'Este / Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1444-1476
places:
Milan / Italy
print:
Textiles
print:
Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1452-1508
print:
Visconti, Filippo Maria
subjects:
Textiles / Exhibition catalogues / Embroidery / Silks / Patronage / Velvets / Brocade / Cloth / Attribution
subjects:
Italian
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Seta Oro Cremisi: Segreti e tecnologia alla corte dei Visconti e degli Sforza | editor: Buss, Chiara
Book Review
Gold Brocade and Renaissance Painting. A Study in Material Culture
08/2010 | 1289 | 152
Pages: 552
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Reviewer:
Scott, Margaret (Scott, Margaret)
Subjects
dates:
1300-1699
print:
Brocade
subjects:
Silks / Textiles / Costume / Brocade / Gold / Renaissance / Cloth / Paintings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gold Brocade and Renaissance Painting. A Study in Material Culture | author: Duits, Rembrandt
Article
A Mughal Personage Velvet
11/1973 | 848 | 115
Pages: 721-725+727
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Author:
Kahlenberg, Mary (Kahlenberg, Mary)
Subjects
dates:
1600-1699
museums and institutions:
Windsor Castle, Windsor, Great Britain
places:
India / Persia
sources:
Shah Jahan nama / Inayat Khan, ca. 1627-1670
subjects:
Indian painting / Textiles / Velvets
subjects:
Persian / Cloth
subjects:
Indo-Persian
subjects:
Mughal / Safavid
subjects:
Illuminated manuscripts / Sources
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
22. Velvet Polychrome, Safavid, Early Seventeenth Century. (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, No.962.60).
Non-western art unattributed:
23. Velvet, Polychrome, Safavid, Early Seventeenth Century. (Cleveland Museum of Art, No.32.42.)
Non-western art unattributed:
24. Velvet polychrome Safavid Early Seventeenth Century. (Royal Ontario Museum Toronto No.960.257).
Non-western art unattributed:
25. Detail from Shāh Jahān nāma, f. 122r. (Royal Library, Windsor Castle.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty the Queen.
Non-western art unattributed:
26. Detail from Shāh Jahān nāma, f. 50v. (Royal Library, Windsor Castle.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty the Queen.
Non-western art unattributed:
27. Detail from Shāh Jahān nāma, f. 72r. (Royal Library, Windsor Castle.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty the Queen.
Non-western art unattributed:
28. Velvet, Polychrome, Mughal 1650-60. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, No.71.13.)
Non-western art unattributed:
29. Detail from the Velvet Reproduced in Fig.28.
Non-western art unattributed:
30. Mughal Painting of Europeans, Seventeenth Century. (Victoria & Albert Museum, I. M. 14-1913.)
Non-western art unattributed:
31. Detail from Shāh Jahān nāma, f. 97v. (Royal Library, Windsor Castle.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty the Queen.
Book Review
Iban or Sea Dayak Fabrics and Their Patterns. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Iban Fabrics in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge
10/1937 | 415 | 71
Pages: 195
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Reviewer:
Thomas, Trevor (Thomas, Trevor)
Subjects
places:
Indonesia / Borneo
subjects:
Textiles / Iban
subjects:
Cloth / Catalogues
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Iban or Sea Dayak Fabrics and Their Patterns. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Iban Fabrics in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge | author: Haddon, Alfred C. , author: Start, Laura E.
Book Review
English Decorative Fabrics of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
03/1935 | 384 | 66
Pages: 147
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Reviewer:
Clayton, Muriel (Clayton, Muriel; C., M.)
Subjects
dates:
1600-1799
places:
England
subjects:
Textiles / Embroidery
subjects:
Cloth
Reviewed Items
subjects:
English Decorative Fabrics of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries | author: Kendrick, A. F.
Book Review
Painted and Printed Fabrics
03/1928 | 300 | 52
Pages: 154
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Reviewer:
Kendrick, A. F. (Kendrick, A. F.; K., A. F.; K., A.; Kendrick, Albert Frank)
Subjects
places:
India
subjects:
Textiles / Cloth / Calico-printing / Indian
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Painted and Printed Fabrics | author: Clouzot, Henri-Georges , author: Morris, Frances
Article
A Silk Fabric Woven at Baghdad
12/1926 | 285 | 49
Pages: 261-262+266-267
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Author:
Guest, Rhuvon (Guest, Rhuvon; Guest, R.)
Author:
Kendrick, A. F. (Kendrick, A. F.; K., A. F.; K., A.; Kendrick, Albert Frank)
Subjects
dates:
0900-0999
places:
Iraq / Baghdad
subjects:
Textiles / Islamic / Silks / Cloth
subjects:
Silk stuffs
subjects:
Animals / Elephants / Iconography
subjects:
Kufic / Inscriptions
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Silk Fabric, Mediæval, with Inscription Showing It to Have Been Woven in Baghdad. 26 cm. by 25 cm. (Colegiata de San Isodoro, Léon). A Silk Fabric Woven at Baghdad
Book Review
Historic Textile Fabrics
03/1924 | 252 | 44
Pages: 154
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Reviewer:
Birrell, Francis (Birrell, Francis; B., F.)
Subjects
subjects:
Textiles / Techniques
subjects:
Cloth
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Historic Textile Fabrics | author: Glazier, Richard
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