Covering a period that witnessed the flowering of the
Renaissance and the major expansion of the Italian silk industry,
this volume examines the Italian silk fabrics depicted in paintings
from Italy, England and the Netherlands over the course of 250
years. Lisa Monnas offers a masterly evaluation of these paintings
as source material for classifying surviving textiles, giving
particular attention to the identification of historic textile
types and their weave structure.
Monnas examines a wide range of subjects, including silk as a
marker of social status, the material possessions of artists and
their ownership of textiles as props, the involvement of painters
in silk design, and the repetition and transfer of patterns. She
considers the evidence of paintings not only for the veracity with
which the silks are depicted but also for their value as a historic
source concerning the use of fabrics.
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