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Table of Contents:
- 1. Who Wore Silk? The Price of Silk Fabrics, Artists' Clothing and Studio Props
- 2. Painters and the Design of Woven Silks
- 3. Cloth of Gold in Fourteenth-century Sienese and Florentine Paintings
- 4. Painting Velvet in Italy and the Netherlands during the First Half of the Fifteenth Century
- 5. The Transmission of Textile Designs in Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-century Netherlandish Paintings
- 6. Decorative Silks in Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-century Italian Paintings
- 7. Textiles in Portraits in Venice, Florence, and England, 1480-1550
- 8. Convention or Reality? Reading Textiles in Paintings
- 9. A Life of their Own: The Longevity and Changing Use of Silk Fabrics
- Epilogue: Nineteenth-century English Textiles and Wallpapers Designed after Fabrics Shown in Medieval and Renaissance Paintings
- I. Looms, Textile Types and Historic Terminology (includes Glossaries of Weaving, Dress and Painting Terms, Measurements and Money)
- II. Letter of William Makefyrr, 1506
- III. Vestments Woven with Christ and St Thomas in Rome and Florence
- IV. Copes with Named Benefactors with Dates Attached, Extracted from the Ninety-one Copes in the Inventory of St Paul's Cathedral, London, 1295.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-391) and index.
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Physical Description:
- xi, 408 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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Call Numbers:
- ND1460.T49 M66 2008
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ISBNs:
- 9780300111170 (cl, alk. paper)
0300111177 (cl, alk. paper)
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Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2007014687
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OCLC Numbers:
- 123136667