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

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

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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Slide 4

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

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

Right: Chasuble of Archbishop Willingis of Mainz 1000-1100

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Slide 6

Growing personal wealth and the rise of ornamentation

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

Woven silk, Spain,  1300s

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Slide 7: Case Study: Venice

Doge of Venice , 1457-1470s

Sermon of Saint Steven , Carpaccio, 1540,  Louvre

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Slide 8: Venice and the east

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

Sultan’s Favorite , from a costume  book, 1590

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Slide 9: Personal wealth, pattern, and fashion

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

The Triumph of Fame , 1502,  Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Drowning of Britomartis