Sunday, August 9, 2009

Lords and ladies

A presentation on medieval textile design
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Slide 1

Investigating the effects of power, status and wealth on textile design

  Dark Ages:400-1000

   Early Gothic 1000-1200

Late Gothic 1200-1400

  Renaissance 1450-1600


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Slide 2

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Imperial Ottoman silk velvet kaftan associated with Sultan Mahmet II, the Conquerer (1451-1481)


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Elephant silk C11 1st 1/2 

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Slide 3

Bayeux Tapestry

-Created shortly after Battle of Hastings

 and Norman conquest


-79 scenes accompanied by Latin 

Inscriptions & showing battle scenes


-600 figures, 700 animals with scenes 

of farming, cooking, feasting, boat-building, 

and hunting


-Many levels of society and is an excellent source for costume, furnishings and buildings


-260 feet long by 28 inches high


-Not a true tapestry – two kinds of embroidery 


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Decline in wealth and civilisation:  society is unstable

Most decorated textiles are  ecclesiastical 

Belief in the coming of Christ/end of the  world

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Slide 5: Effects of Crusade on textiles

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Left: Chuasuble, England, 1330-1380, Metropolitan Museum of Art


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Right: Chasuble of Archbishop Willingis of Mainz 1000-1100

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Slide 6

Growing personal wealth and the rise of ornamentation


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Madonna and Child Enthroned , 1396,  Museo Civico Correr, Venice


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Woven silk, Spain,  1300s

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Slide 7: Case Study: Venice
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Doge of Venice , 1457-1470s


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Sermon of Saint Steven , Carpaccio, 1540,  Louvre

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Slide 8: Venice and the east

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Sultan Mehmet II , Bellini,  1480, National Gallery of  London


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Sultan’s Favorite , from a costume  book, 1590

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Slide 9: Personal wealth, pattern, and fashion

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Ladies weaving, Flemish 1490

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Slide 10: Northern Europe - Fashion without pattern.  Imitation

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Slide 11: Patterns in Renaissance Textile

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Slide 12: Renaissance Motifs

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Slide 14: Case Study: The Hunt of the Unicorn, ca 1500

 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection

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Slide 15: Tapestry

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The Triumph of Fame , 1502,  Metropolitan Museum of Art


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The Drowning of Britomartis


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