Research Catalog

Title

Arrayed in splendour : art, fashion and textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / edited by Christoph Brachmann.

Publication

• Turnhout : Brepols, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Brachmann, Christoph

Description

264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm.

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. In 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.

Series Statement

Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history

Uniform Title

Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history.

Subject

• Clothing and dress > Europe > History
• Tapestry > Europe > History
• Embroidery > Europe > History
• Clothing and dress > Social aspects > Europe
• Clothing and dress
• Clothing and dress > Medieval
• Clothing and dress > Social aspects
• Embroidery
• Tapestry
• Europe

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 233-256) and index.

Contents

Clothing for a marriage made in heaven : the role of textiles in ecclesiastical consecration rites / Evelin Wetter -- Love and resurrection : the Luxembourg dynasty's funeral garments at St Vitus Cathedral in Prague / Christoph Brachmann -- All that glitters : cloth of gold as a vehicle for display 1300-1550 / Lisa Monnas -- The making of appearances at the 1530 Augsburg Imperial Diet / Ulinka Rublack -- The two faces of power : the image strategy of Cosimo I de' Medici / Roberta Orsi Landini -- Representatives of power -- tapestries made for kings and emperors / Katja Schmitz-von Ledebur -- Virtue and vice : clothing and kingship at the courts of Charles I and Charles II (1625-85) / Maria Hayward -- Arrayed in splendour : an africanist's perspective / Victoria L. Rovine.

Call Number

JQF 19-1587

ISBN

• 9782503579658
• 2503579655

OCLC

1038009397

Title

Arrayed in splendour : art, fashion and textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / edited by Christoph Brachmann.

Publisher

Turnhout : Brepols, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history

Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 233-256) and index.

Added Author

Brachmann, Christoph, editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 19-1587