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Arrayed in splendour: art, fashion and textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / edited by C. Brachmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Art History (Outside a Series) (STAH)
- Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress, Medieval.
- Clothing and dress--Europe--History.
- Clothing and dress.
- Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
- Embroidery.
- History.
- Tapestry.
- Europe.
- Tapestry--Europe--History.
- Embroidery--Europe--History.
- Clothing and dress--Social aspects--Europe.
- Clothing and dress--Medieval.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout : Brepols 2019.
- Summary:
- Original contributions of leading scholars in their field give an insight in the current state of research on textile art in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Precious textiles, fabrics, embroideries, and tapestries played an important role in medieval and early modern cultures of representation. Reasons for such a high esteem of textile arts are not only the enormous material value of gold and silk, which had to be imported from distant regions, but also the extremely complex and time-consuming production conditions, including a level of technical expertise that was present only in a few highly specialized centers.0In stark contrast to the medieval and early modern reception, it was only in recent years, that in art history the narrow view of the textile arts as an?applied? art and therefore a low one has undergone a fundamental shift. The aim of this volume is to give an insight in the current state of research on the topic. Ranging from the twelfth to the seventeenth century, the essays of leading scholars in the field offer a window into the complexity of the textile arts, including as regards the medium itself: from the overpowering splendor of liturgical and princely garments and the luxurious fabrics used for them in the Middle Ages and early modern period to the visual world of monumental room decorations in the form of tapestries.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 233-256) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9782503579658
- 2503579655
- OCLC:
- 1038009397
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