Has anyone seen this book? It's a bit expensive (even with the 10% discount
from the publisher), so I would ILL....
Please note the comment about fictional fabrics: "how artists catered for
an audience that desired to have gold brocades depicted but did not always
possess the financial means to own the actual fabrics".
Beth
Gold Brocade and Renaissance Painting. A Study in Material Culture by
Rembrandt Duits. 24 x 17 cm 484 pp. 290 illus. £150.00 (November 2006) ISBN
1904597424 Cloth.
Rembrandt Duits completed his PhD at the University of Utrecht , and works
at the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute, where he also
teaches Renaissance material culture. His thesis, Gold Brocade and
Renaissance Painting, won the Karel van Mander Prijs for the best
publication on art between 1500 and 1800.
Gold Brocade and Renaissance Painting discusses the representation of
Italian Renaissance patterned silks in paintings from Italy and the
Southern Netherlands , from the 14th to the 16th century. It is the first
study to approach this subject from the perspective of material culture,
attempting to answer such questions as why the subject of luxury textiles
gained so great a popularity in Renaissance painting, how artists catered
for an audience that desired to have gold brocades depicted but did not
always possess the financial means to own the actual fabrics, and what the
skills artists developed in this field contributed to the rising social
status of the medium of painting. The material culture of the grand courts
at which real gold brocade played an essential role in the display of
wealth and status is compared to that of the socially ambitious but less
affluent middle class for whom paintings were often the only affordable
substitute for courtly splendour. Thus, the book also addresses the problem
of the distinction between fact and fiction, imagination and reality in the
account of contemporary social history presented in paintings.
Contents
* Introduction
* Fictional Fabrics. The Correlation between Real and Depicted Silk
Textiles
* Conspicuous Consumption. The Markets for Gold Brocades and Paintings
* Princely Patronage. The Function of Gold Brocades and Paintings at
Grand Courts
* Derived Display. Imitation of the Courtly Model by Urban Elites
* Conflicting Connotations. The Role of Gold Brocade in Renaissance
Iconography
* Index
http://www.pindarpress.co.uk/catalogue/early-italian/duits-brocade.htm
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