The St. Martin Embroideries

The St. Martin Embroideries
Author: Margaret B. Freeman
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1968
Genre: Christian saints in art
ISBN:

Embroidery and lace

Embroidery and lace
Author: Ernest Lef?bure
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Total Pages: 335
Release: 1888
Genre: History
ISBN: 5876797529

A handbook for amateurs, collectors, and general readers

European Textiles

European Textiles
Author: Christa C. Mayer-Thurman
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2001
Genre: Tapestry
ISBN: 0870999893

This volume catalogues the more than 250 textiles and objects made of fabric that were part of Robert Lehman's bequest to the Metropolitan Museum in 1975. Many of these textiles were used as hangings, covers, or upholstery to embellish the Lehmans' elegant townhouse in Manhattan. They represent sixty-five years of assembling, owning, and living with historic fabrics on a day-to-day basis, and they document an American style of living and interior decoration that has largely disappeared. Among the highlights of the collection are two series of embroidered roundels from fifteenth-century Flanders that illustrate the lives of Saints Martin and Catherine of Alexandria; four large tapestries, including the Last Supper after Bernaert van Orley that is arguably the finest Renaissance tapestry in an American collection; and a number of ecclesiastical vestments and panels of magnificent silks and velvets in an array of techniques and styles that span six centuries. Comparative illustrations supplement the catalogue entries. Glossary, bibliography, and index. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

High Fashion in the Church

High Fashion in the Church
Author: Pauline Johnstone
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000940209

This book focuses on second half of the twentieth century, for strange things have been happening in the church. It aim is to show something of the origins and use of the vestments themselves, and to traces the development of their decoration in the context of the arts.

Jan van Eyck and Portugal's 'Illustrious Generation'

Jan van Eyck and Portugal's 'Illustrious Generation'
Author: Barbara von Barghahn
Publisher: Pindar Press
Total Pages: 887
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1915837049

This book investigates Jan Van Eyck's patronage by the Crown of Portugal and his role as diplomat-painter for the Duchy of Burgundy following his first voyage to Lisbon in 1428-1429, when he painted two portraits of Infanta Isabella, who became the third wife of Philip the Good in 1430. New portrait identifications are provided for the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) and its iconographical prototype, the lost Fountain of Life. These altarpieces are analysed with regard to King Joao I's conquest of Ceuta, achieved by his sons, who were hailed as an "illustrious generation." Strong family ties between the dynastic houses of Avis and Lancaster explain Lusitania's sustained fascination with Arthurian lore and the Grail quest. Several chapters of this book are overlaid with a chivalric veneer. A second "secret mission" to Portugal in 1437 by Jan van Eyck is postulated and this diplomatic visit is related to Prince Henry the Navigator's expedition to Tangier and King Duarte's attempts to forge an alliance with Alfonso V of Aragon. Late Eyckian commissions are reviewed in the light of this ill-fated crusade and additional new portraits are identified. The most significant artist of Renaissance Flanders appears to have been patronized as much by the House of Avis as by the Duchy of Burgundy. Barbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University and a specialist in the art history of Portugal, Spain, and their colonial dominions, as well as Flanders. In 1993, she was conferred O Grao Comendador in the Portuguese Order of Prince Henry the Navigator. She has spent nearly a decade completing research about Jan van Eyck's diplomatic visits to the Iberian Peninsula.