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THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN | VOLUME 73 | NUMBER 2
"Fashion & Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520–1620"
48 pages
60 illustrations
This title is out of print.
This Bulletin discusses the Met's extensive collection of Renaissance textile pattern books, used primarily by women to embroider clothes and accessories. The practice of embroidery was seen as a virtuous endeavor, and textile pattern books, published with great frequency from the 1520s onward, were designed to inspire, instruct, and encourage "beautiful and virtuous women" in this esteemed practice. Straddling the disciplines of early printmaking, ornament design, and textile decoration, these works help shed light on the crucial period when the concept of fashion as a means of distinguishing individual identity became fixed in Western society.
Met Art in Publication
April 12, 1532
10th–11th century
Spanish
15th–16th century
Spanish
16th century
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1600
Italian, Gubbio
ca. 1530
1521 before
1466–1524
ca. 1596
October 22, 1524
1529
August 1529
1530
ca. 1532
Russian
20th century
1970
ca. 1510–15
1597
Multiple artists/makers
1546
[1530]
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