Author: Dolores M. AndrewPublisher: Stemmer House Pub
ISBN: 9780880451215
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
"A Barbara Holdridge book"--P. [2] of cover.
Candace Bahouth's Medieval Needlepoint
Author: Candace BahouthPublisher:
ISBN: 9781850295341
Category : Art, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A collection of over 20 practical projects each worked in tent stitch, for the reader to recreate medieval needlepoint designs on items such as cushions, chair covers and tapestry-style waistcoats.
The Troyes Mémoire
Author: Tina KanePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843835703
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
First English translation of a late fifteenth century manuscript containing instructions for designing a medieval tapestry - the only such to survive. The "Troyes Mémoire", a late fifteenth-century manuscript preserved in the archives of the town of Troyes, France, is the sole surviving example of the written instructions used in designing tapestries during the Middle Ages. It is unique in its presentation of detailed information on how patrons and church officials communicated complex iconographic material to the medieval artists commissioned to paint cartoons for tapestries. It is here translated intoEnglish for the first time, with full introduction and extensive notes. The volume also includes a translation of another richly informative document from medieval Troyes: the Account Books of the Church of Sainte-Madeleine, whichintroduces us to the actual people who worked together, between 1416 and 1430, to produce a set of tapestries for the town's oldest church. They shed important new light on an era when tapestry represented a supreme form of art. Tina Kane is Conservator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Textile Conservation.
The Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Adolph S. CavalloPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998684
Category : Art and mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Among the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is a set of tapestries depicting the hunt of the fabled unicorn. Each of the seven exquisite tapestries is reproduced in large colorplates and with a wealth of color details. Created in the Netherlands in 1495-1505, they contain supremely memorable images - from the vulnerable unicorn and the individualized faces of the hunters to the naturalistically depicted flora and fauna. The author also looks at the construction of the tapestries and the historical and cultural context in which they were woven.
Flowers, Birds, and Unicorns
Author: Candice BahouthPublisher: Abrams
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
One of the world's most influential needlepoint and textile artists re-creates the magic of the Middle Ages with more than 20 magnificent projects, for both beginners and veteran stitchers. More than just a how-to, this book sets the designs, themes, and motifs in the context of Medieval art and life. Full-color illustrations.
Tapestry in the Renaissance
Author: Thomas P. CampbellPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588390225
Category : Tapestry, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Tapestries--the art form of kings--were a principal tool used by powerful Renaissance rulers to convey their wealth and might. From 1460 to 1560, courts and churches lavished vast sums on costly weavings in silk and gold thread from designs by leading artists. In this lavishly illustrated book, the first major survey of tapestry production of this period, contributors analyze some of these & beautiful tapestries, examine the stylistic and technical development of tapestry production in the Low Countries, France, and Italy during the Renaissance, and discuss the contribution that the medium made to art, liturgy, and propaganda of the day.
Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870996444
Category : Tapestry
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
A study of the condition, subject, design, manufacture, ownership, and exhibitions for each tapestry or set of tapestries in the Museum's medieval tapestry collection. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Contexts
Author: Elizabeth Carson PastanPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843839415
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
A full and provocative reappraisal of the Bayeux "Tapestry", its origins, design and patronage. Aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry (in fact an embroidered hanging) have always remained mysterious, despite much scholarly investigation, not least its design and patron. Here, in the first full-length interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the authors (an art historian and a historian) consider these and other issues. Rejecting the prevalent view that it was commissioned by Odo, the bishop of Bayeux and half-brother of William the Conqueror, or by some other comparable patron, they bring new evidence to bear on the question of its relationship to the abbey of St Augustine's, Canterbury. From the study of art-historical, archeological, literary, historical and documentary materials, they conclude that the monks of St Augustine's designed the hanging for display in their abbey church to tell their own story of how England was invaded and conquered in 1066. Elizabeth Carson Pastan is a Professor of Art History at Emory University; Stephen D. White is Asa G. Candler Professor of Medieval History (emeritus), Emory University, and an Honorary Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews.
Author: Lili BlumenauThe Bayeux Tapestry
Author: Lucien MussetPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843831631
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The story of the Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered strip of linen telling the story of the events starting in 1064 that led up to the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest of England in 1066
