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Exhibition Review
Embroidery in the Middle Ages. Musée de Cluny, Paris
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 54-57
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Reviewer:
Michael, M. A. (Michael, M. A.)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Bock, Franz
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Embroidery
museums and institutions:
Musée de Cluny (Musée National du Moyen Âge), Paris, France
places:
France / England / Germany / Flanders
styles:
Medieval / Renaissance
styles:
Opus Anglicanum (English Medieval Needlework)
subjects:
Religious art / Textiles
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Embroidery in the Middle Ages Musée de Cluny, Paris 24th October 2019–20th January | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Miraculous healing at the tomb of St Martin from the Life of St Martin, designed by Barthélémy d’Eyck and embroidered by Pierre du Billant. c.1440–50. Linen, polychrome silk thread wrapped with gold and silver, 17.5 by 15 cm. (Musée de Cluny, Paris; © RMNGrand Palais; photograph Thierry Ollivier).
Western art unattributed:
4. Fragment of an antependium or wall-hanging showing Apostles. Linen, embroidery and polychrome silk, 83 by 59 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Musée de Cluny, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
6. Virgin and child clothed in the sun with the moon at her feet. Germany (?), c.1500. Canvas, silk thread, gold- and silverwrapped thread, pearls, metal and glass appliqués, 68 by 47 by 2 cm. Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels; exh. Musée de Cluny, Paris).
Book Review
Der Aachener Kanonikus Franz Bock und seine Textilsammlungen: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kunstgewerbe im 19 Jahrhundert
08/2010 | 1289 | 152
Pages: 553-554
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Reviewer:
Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Bock, Franz
dates:
1840-1849 / 1850-1899
print:
Bock, Franz
print:
Textiles
subjects:
Costume / Textiles / Ecclesiastical vestments / Collections / Collecting
subjects:
Middle Eastern / Embroidery
subjects:
Collections, Public
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Der Aachener Kanonikus Franz Bock und seine Textilsammlungen: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kunstgewerbe im 19 Jahrhundert | author: Borkopp-Restle, Birgitt
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
49. Kaftan of Craiovescu, Béri of Ottonia, reconstructed from a funeral pall offered to the Bistritza Monastery, Bucharest, in 1490. Velvet with gold filé and bouclé, 136 cm. high. (Muzeul National de Arta al Romaniei, Bucharest).