Fragment

Italy, 1450-1500

Textile fragment, light brown background with darker patterning of wide vine-line forms with leaves and flourishes, outlined in red thread. · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Italy ¹
Date: 1450-1500 ¹
Medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary silk facing wefts, secondary binding warps tying supplementary gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk patterning and brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet ¹
Original: 1,689 × 2,250 px ¹
License: Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago)
Credit: Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society

Object record, Art Institute of Chicago

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Computed from the image

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Close in palette, light and contrast · computed

This is a drawing of three statues within an architectural setting. The central figure is depicted as an ancient warrior goddess holding a shield and a spear, flanked by male warrior statues on pedestals.

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Similar light, opposite temperature · computed

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