By using this website you agree to our Cookie policy

Search

10 articles
Exhibition Review
An Epic of Technical Supremacy: Works and Words of Medieval Chinese Textile Technology
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 63-4
related names
Reviewer:
Hammers, Roslyn Lee (Hammers, Roslyn Lee)
Subjects
Reviewed Items
subjects:
An Epic of Technical Supremacy: Works and Words of Medieval Chinese Textile Technology By Dieter Kuhn. 488 pp. incl. 79 col. + b. & w. ills. (Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, 2022), CHF120. ISBN 978–3–905014–73–0. | :
Book Review
Gewebtes Gold: Eine kleine Geschichte der Metallfaden-Weberei von der Antike bis um 1800
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 576
related names
Reviewer:
Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
subjects:
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gewebtes Gold: Eine kleine Geschichte der Metallfaden-Weberei von der Antike bis um 1800 By Michael Peter. 168 pp. incl. 90 col. + 5 b. & w. ills. (Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, 2022), CHF 40. ISBN 978–3–905014–77–8. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
7. Detail of gold thread from an Italian brocaded cannele silk. Italian, 1740–50. (Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg).
Article
Paintings in Beauvais tapestry, 1764–67
05/2022 | 1430 | 164
Pages: 462-472
related names
Author:
Bertrand, Pascal-François (Bertrand, Pascal-François)
Author:
Bremer David, Charissa (Bremer David, Charissa)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
dates:
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of Louis XV, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at the Gobelins, studio of Pierre-François Cozette, after Louis-Michel Vanloo. c.1771–73. Silk and wool tapestry, 80 by 70 cm. (Château de Fontainebleau).
Attributed works:
10. Portrait of a young woman, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais. 1767. Silk and wool tapestry, photographed in 1913. (Whereabouts unknown).
Attributed works:
11. A girl with a rose, attributed to the workshop of François Boucher. 1760s. Pastel on paper, 53 by 45 cm. (Whereabouts unknown).
Attributed works:
12. The birth of the granddaughter of the Marquis de Courteille, by the Sevres Porcelain Manufactory, painted by Charles Nicolas Dodin. 1765. Porcelain, with polychrome enamel decoration, 23.5 by 26 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
13. The Chinese repast, from The Chinese series, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. 1763–65. Silk and wool tapestry, 306 by 452 cm. (Whereabouts unknown).
Attributed works:
14. Sleep (Amorino offering flowers to a sleeping nymph), by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. 1773. Silk and wool tapestry, 55.9 by 72.4 cm. (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston).
Attributed works:
15. Sleeping nymph, by Gilles Demarteau after François Boucher. 1756– 76. Crayon-manner print, 28.8 by 42.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. Two nymphs from the Scenes from operas series, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. 1765 or 1767. Silk and wool tapestry, 64.8 by 50.2 cm (Taft Museum, Cincinnati).
Attributed works:
3. The flute player from The noble pastoral series, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. 1765 or 1767. Silk and wool tapestry, 64.8 by 50.2 cm. (Taft Museum, Cincinnati).
Attributed works:
4. Detail of The flute player, from The noble pastoral series, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. 1758–78. Silk and wool tapestry, 338 by 333 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
Attributed works:
5. Two nymphs and The flute player, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. 1765 or 1767. Silk and wool tapestry, panels mounted in a double screen, each 69 by 54 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; photograph the authors).
Attributed works:
6. Rinaldo asleep, from the Scenes from operas series, by the Beauvais Royal Tapestry Manufactory, after François Boucher. 1755–56. Silk and wool tapestry, 281 by 472 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
7. The dog and the pheasant, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais. 1765–77. Silk and wool tapestry panel for a fire-screen in a nineteenth-century frame, 133.4 by 81.9 by 44.5 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
Attributed works:
8. The flute player, from The noble pastoral series, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. Silk and wool tapestry in a gilt-wood frame. Photographed before 1934. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
Attributed works:
9. François Boucher’s daughter, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at the Gobelins, studio of Pierre-François Cozette, after François Boucher. 1769. Silk and wool tapestry, 48.9 by 38.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
Hannah Ryggen: Woven Manifestos
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 301-302
related names
Reviewer:
Mitchell, Victoria (Mitchell, Victoria )
Subjects
artists:
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Hannah Ryggen: Threads of Defiance By Marit Paasche. 288 pp. incl. 122 col. + b. & w. ills. (Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2019), £27. ISBN 978–0–500–09409–9. Hannah Ryggen: Woven Manifestos Edited by Marit Paasche and Esther Schlicht. 132 pp. incl. 34 col. + 57 b. & w. ills. (Prestel, New York and London, and Schirn Kunstalle Frankfurt, 2019), £42.50. ISBN 978–3–7913– 5926–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. En fri (A free one), by Hannah Ryggen. 1948. Tapestry woven in wool and linen, 190 by 188 cm. (National Museum of Applied and Decorative Arts, Trondheim).
Book Review
Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 909-910
related names
Reviewer:
Coxon, Ann (Coxon, Ann)
Subjects
places:
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York By K.L.H. Wells. 280 pp. incl. 59 col. + 45 b. & w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2019), £50. ISBN 978–0–300–23259–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Modern tapestry, by Roy Lichtenstein. Pile tapestry produced by Modern Master Tapestries Inc. 1968. Wool, 273.1 by 367.7 cm. (Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, New York; © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein).
Exhibition Review
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 694-696
related names
Reviewer:
Cooke, Lynne (Cooke, Lynne)
Subjects
art literature:
artists:
dates:
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe Edited by Karen Patterson. 304 pp. incl. 200 col. ills. (John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI, and University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2019), £34. ISBN 978–0–226–66483–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Tawney with ‘Shadow River’, by Yousuf Karsh. 1959. Photograph. (Estate of Yousuf Karsh, New York; courtesy Camera Press, London).
Attributed works:
2. Waters above the firmament, by Lenore Tawney. 1976. Linen, warpfaced weft-ribbed plain weave with discontinuous wefts; manuscript pages cut into strips, attached, and painted with Liquitex acrylic paint; braided, knotted and cut warp fringe, 397.6 by 369 cm. (© Lenore G. Tawney Foundation; courtesy Art Institute Chicago).
Attributed works:
3. Collage chest II, by Lenore Tawney. 1974. Wood, metal and mixed media, 41.6 by 16.8 by 70.5 cm. (assembled). (Private collection; courtesy of John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI; photograph Rich Maciejewski).
Book Review
Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries, E. Cleland and M.E. Wieseman
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 439-440
Exhibition Review
Anni Albers. Tate Modern, London
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 74-77
related names
Reviewer:
Darwent, Charles (Darwent, Charles)
Subjects
artists:
dates:
media:
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Knot, by Anni Albers. 1947. Gouache on paper, 43.2 by 51 cm. (Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; © 2018 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; exh. Tate Modern, London).
Attributed works:
23. Intersecting, by Anni Albers. 1962. Pictorial weaving, cotton and rayon, 40 by 41.9 cm. (Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop; © 2018 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; exh. Tate Modern, London).
Attributed works:
24. Eclat, by Anni Albers. 1974. Silkscreen on woven fabric, 30 by 45 cm. (Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; © 2018 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; exh. Tate Modern, London).
Publication Received
The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830.
06/2005 | 1227 | 147
Pages: 414
related names
Reviewer:
Gere, Charlotte (Gere, Charlotte)
Subjects
dates:
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830. | contributor: Alcalá, Luisa Elena , contributor: de Mesa, José , editor: Esteras Martín, Cristina , contributor: Gisbert, Teresa , editor: Hecht, Joanna , contributor: Iriarte, Isabel , contributor: King, Heidi , contributor: MacCormack, Sabine , contributor: Majluf, Natalia , contributor: Mills, Kenneth , contributor: Ossio, Juan M. , editor: Phipps, Elena , contributor: Salomon, Frank , contributor: Wuffarden, Luís Eduardo
Article
Velvets of the Renaissance, from Europe and Asia Minor
06/1927 | 291 | 50
Pages: 298-299+302-304
related names
Author:
Reath, Nancy Andrews (Reath, Nancy Andrews; Reath, Nancy A.)
Subjects
dates:
places:
places:
places:
subjects:
subjects:
subjects:
subjects:
subjects:
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. A-Brocaded Gilt Thread and Gilt Loops in an Asia Minor Satin Velvet. B-Brocaded Gilt Thread Bound by the Velvet Warp, in a European Satin Velvet (Enlarged Sections). Velvets of the Renaissance, from Europe and Asia Minor
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. C-Green Velvet on Red Satin Ground, Brocaded with Green Thread. Asia Minor (Kelekian Collection). Velvets of the Renaissance, from Europe and Asia Minor
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. D.-Blue Velvet on Ground of Cloth Weave, Brocaded with Gilt Thread. Asia Minor (Kelekian Collection). Velvets of the Renaissance, from Europe and Asia Minor
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. E-Red and Yellow Velvet on Satin Ground, Brocaded with Gilt Thread; Finish Line of Velvet at the Bottom, and Diagonal Scoring. Asia Minor (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). Velvets of the Renaissance, from Europe and Asia Minor
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. C-Red Velvet on Satin Ground, Brocaded with Gilt Thread. Asia Minor (Kelekian Collection). Velvets of the Renaissance, from Europe and Asia Minor
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. D-Red Velvet on Red Satin Ground, Brocaded with Gilt. Asia Minor (Musée du Tissus, Lyons). Velvets of the Renaissance, from Europe and Asia Minor
Western art unattributed:
Plate II. A-Red Velvet, Pile on Pile, on Satin Ground, Brocaded with Gilt Thread and Gilt Loops. European (Metropolitan Museum, New York). Velvets of the Renaissance, from Europe and Asia Minor
Western art unattributed:
Plate II. B-Red Velvet on Cord Ground, Brocaded with Gilt Thread and Gilt Loops. European (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, New York). Velvets of the Renaissance, from Europe and Asia Minor