Book Description
Thirteen specialists on the history of tapestry offer a detailed survey of the lives and works of the Flemish weavers and of their relations with foreign patrons and artists.
Author : Guy Delmarcel
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789058672216
Thirteen specialists on the history of tapestry offer a detailed survey of the lives and works of the Flemish weavers and of their relations with foreign patrons and artists.
Author : Guy Delmarcel
Publisher : Lannoo Uitgeverij
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9789020938869
Author : Guy Delmarcel
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2000-03
Category : Art
ISBN :
Flemish ranks the most luxurious tapestry among and skillful textile traditions in the world. At the height of their popularity, these sumptuous decorative panels were in overwhelming demand from wealthy and royal patrons for whom the tapestries represented the height of luxury and prestige. This lush volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Flemish tapestry history, spanning the 15th century to shortly before the French Revolution. Guy Delmarcel, a Belgian expert in Flemish textiles, covers every aspect of the design and production of these treasures. The wealth of illustrations includes famous and never-before-published tapestries and many close-up details, as well as a number of complete sets of tapestry panels. An impeccably researched reference work that will be of enormous value to tapestry collectors, dealers, and scholars, this gorgeous, volume will also provide hours upon hours of browsing pleasure for art lovers.
Author : MaryBryanH. Curd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351566989
By examining their production practices in a variety of genres?including manuscript illustration, glass painting and staining, tapestry manufacture, portrait painting, and engraving?this book explores how Netherlandish artists migrating to England in the early modern period overcame difficulties raised by their outsider status. This study examines, for the first time in this context, the challenges of alien status to artistic production and the effectiveness of cooperation as a countermeasure. The author demonstrates that collaboration was chief among the strategies that these foreigners chose to secure a position in London's changing art market. Curd's exploration of these collaborations primarily follows Pierre Bourdieu's model of "establishment and challenger" in which dominance in a field of cultural production depends upon how much cultural, political, and economic capital can be accumulated and the effectiveness of the strategies used to confront competition. The analysis presented here challenges received opinion that a collaborative work is only a joint effort of artists working together on a single monument by demonstrating that the participation of patrons and middlemen can also shape the final appearance of a work of art. Furthermore, this book shows that the strategic use of collaboration served the goal of competition by helping to establish foreign artists in the London art market and suggests that their coping strategies have implications for the study of immigrant behaviors today.
Author : Thomas P. Campbell
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Design
ISBN : 1588392309
Author : Linda Levy Peck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521842327
A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.
Author : Ross King
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1408834278
For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it 'the keystone of European art', and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous image. And yet there is a very human story behind this artistic 'miracle'. Ross King's Leonardo and the Last Supper is both a 'biography' of one of the most famous works of art ever painted and a record of Leonardo da Vinci's last five years in Milan.
Author : Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1040016189
This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about, and why they were so popular. In contrast to the numerous studies on the historical and legendary figure of Alexander, surprisingly few studies have examined, in one volume, the visual representation of the Macedonian king in frescoes, oil paintings, engravings, manuscripts, medals, sculpture, and tapestries during the Renaissance. The book covers a broad geographical area and includes transalpine perspectives. Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes examines the role that humanists played in disseminating the stories about Alexander and explores why Alexander was so popular during the Renaissance. Alexander-Skipnes offers cultural, political, and social perspectives on the Macedonian king and shows how Renaissance artists and patrons viewed Alexander the Great. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, ancient Greek history, and classics.
Author : Thomas P. Campbell
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Tapestry, Renaissance
ISBN : 1588390225
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.
Author : Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 144387891X
In June 2012, scholars from a number of disciplines and countries gathered in Stockholm to discuss the representation of ancient mythology in Renaissance Europe. This symposium was an opportunity for the participants to cross disciplinary borders and to problematize a well-researched field. The aim was to move beyond a view of mythology as mere propaganda in order to promote an understanding of ancient tales and fables as contemporary means to explain and comprehend the Early Modern world. W ...