Research Catalog

Title

Velvets of the fifteenth century / edited by Michael Peter ; with contributions by Sophie Desrosiers [and fifteen others].

Publication

Riggisberg : Abegg-Stiftung, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Peter, Michael
• Desrosiers, Sophie
• Abegg-Stiftung, host institution.

Description

230 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits; 32 cm.

Summary

When Werner Abegg first began collecting textiles around 1930 velvets of the fifteenth and sixteenth century were among his earliest and most important acquisitions. Of all the different types of silk weaving, these were the ones that fascinated the young collector most. The Abegg-Stiftung has been able to amass a number of important Italian and Ottoman velvets in recent years. These tell of the many forms of artistic exchange that took place between West and East. The new acquisitions add both breadth and depth to an existing focus of the collection. A small selection of them is now to go on show for a few weeks. Exhibition: Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, Switzerland (01.09. - 08.11.2020).

Series Statement

Riggisberger Berichte ; 24

Uniform Title

Riggisberger Berichte ; 24.

Alternative Title

Velvets of the 15th century

Subject

• 1400-1499
• Velvet > History > 15th century
• Velvet

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228).

Contents

Velvets of the fifteenth century : art, technique, and business / Michael Peter -- A puzzling cope from Lausanne Cathedral / Ilona Kos -- Velvet connections : a fifteenth-century cope in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts / Lisa Monnas -- Dated or undated : some velvet brocades in Swedish churches / Margareta Nockert -- The technical data in the statutes : the problem of identifying the principal manufacturers / Roberta Orsi Landini -- "Orsoio" and "Velluti" : a new yarn for a new fabric? / Suzanne Lasalle and Sophie Desrosiers -- Designations for velvet in central-European church inventories / Evelin Wetter -- Velvet at the court of Henry VII / Maria Hayward -- Uncouth headlesse thing come pacing downe the hill : velvet in late-medieval and early-modern sumptuary law / Thomas Ertl -- Velvets at the fairs of Geneva in the mid-fifteenth century : protagonists, trading practices, and assortment / Jörg Richter -- Black velvet : the account book of Wilhelm and Matthäus Runtinger and the transalpine trade in silks from Venice and Lucca before 1400 / Juliane von Fircks -- Pomp and grace : Ottoman velvets of the fifteenth century / Louise W. Mackie -- Technical aspects of Ottoman velvet weaving / Corinna Kienzler -- Fifteenth-century Spanish velvet production / Germán Navarro Espinach -- The role of velvet in Renaissance painting / Rembrandt Duits.

ISBN

• 9783905014716
• 3905014718

OCLC

• on1223496826
• 1223496826

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries