English embroidery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700 : 'twixt art and nature
2008
746.44 M594 2008
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Title
English embroidery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700 : 'twixt art and nature
Published
New York : New Haven : Published for Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decortive Arts, Design, and Culture : The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, 2008.
Description
xix, 308 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm.
Call Number
746.44 M594 2008
System Control No.
(OCoLC)225875832
Note
Published in conjunction with the exhibition: English embroidery from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700: 'twixt art and nature, held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decortive Arts, Design, and Culture from Dec. 11, 2008-April 12, 2009"--Title verso.
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"This book centers around the Metropolitan Museum of Art's preeminent collection of embroidered objects from England's late Tudor and Stuart eras. These seventeenth-century embroideries, over eighty works in all, include samplers, gloves, headgear, purses, raised-work panels, boxes and mirrors, portrait miniatures, lavishly embroidered Bibles, and a spectacular burse made to hold the Great Seal of England. In a series of essays, the book explores the important role of embroidery in the history of textiles and decorative arts and also offers new insight into the role of women in the production of decorative arts. Expert scholars discuss embroidered furnishings, fashion accessories, biblical narratives, and pastoral imagery to create a superb, comprehensive overview of embroidery during this tumultuous period in English history"--Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-303) and index.
Contents: Foreword / Susan Weber -- Preface / Philippe de Montebello -- Introduction / Andrew Morrall and Melinda Watt -- Chronology of English Constitutional history, 1558-1702 -- Collecting English domestic embroidery / Melinda Watt -- Embroidered furnishings: questions of production and usage / Kathleen Staples -- "An instrument of profit, pleasure and of ornament": embroidered Tudor and Jacobean dress accessories / Susan North -- Embroidered Biblical narratives and their social context / Ruth Geuter -- Regaining Eden: representations of nature in seventeenth-century English embroidery / Andrew Morrall -- Materials and techniques of secular embroideries / Cristina Balloffet Carr -- Catalogue of the exhibition : The royal image ; Embroidery and education ; Accessories of dress ; Interior furnishings ; Biblical subjects ; Nature and pastoral imagery -- Stitch glossary.
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Text in double columns.
"This book centers around the Metropolitan Museum of Art's preeminent collection of embroidered objects from England's late Tudor and Stuart eras. These seventeenth-century embroideries, over eighty works in all, include samplers, gloves, headgear, purses, raised-work panels, boxes and mirrors, portrait miniatures, lavishly embroidered Bibles, and a spectacular burse made to hold the Great Seal of England. In a series of essays, the book explores the important role of embroidery in the history of textiles and decorative arts and also offers new insight into the role of women in the production of decorative arts. Expert scholars discuss embroidered furnishings, fashion accessories, biblical narratives, and pastoral imagery to create a superb, comprehensive overview of embroidery during this tumultuous period in English history"--Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-303) and index.
Contents: Foreword / Susan Weber -- Preface / Philippe de Montebello -- Introduction / Andrew Morrall and Melinda Watt -- Chronology of English Constitutional history, 1558-1702 -- Collecting English domestic embroidery / Melinda Watt -- Embroidered furnishings: questions of production and usage / Kathleen Staples -- "An instrument of profit, pleasure and of ornament": embroidered Tudor and Jacobean dress accessories / Susan North -- Embroidered Biblical narratives and their social context / Ruth Geuter -- Regaining Eden: representations of nature in seventeenth-century English embroidery / Andrew Morrall -- Materials and techniques of secular embroideries / Cristina Balloffet Carr -- Catalogue of the exhibition : The royal image ; Embroidery and education ; Accessories of dress ; Interior furnishings ; Biblical subjects ; Nature and pastoral imagery -- Stitch glossary.
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