TY - BOOK ID - 1759028 TI - Gold brocade and Renaissance painting : a study in material culture PY - 2008 SN - 9781904597421 1904597424 PB - London: Pindar Press, DB - UniCat KW - Painting KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Textile fabrics in art KW - Painting, Renaissance KW - Painting, Dutch KW - Brocade KW - Material culture KW - Textiles et tissus dans l'art KW - Peinture de la Renaissance KW - Peinture hollandaise KW - Brocart KW - Culture matérielle KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Culture matérielle KW - Painting, Netherlandish KW - Netherlandish painting KW - Silk KW - Textile fabrics KW - Culture KW - Folklore KW - Technology KW - History. KW - Painting, Renaissance - Italy KW - Painting, Renaissance - Netherlands UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1759028 AB - Gold Brocade and Renaissance Painting discusses the representation of Italian Renaissance patterned silks in paintings from Italy and the Southern Netherlands , from the 14th to the 16th century. It is the first study to approach this subject from the perspective of material culture, attempting to answer such questions as why the subject of luxury textiles gained so great a popularity in Renaissance painting, how artists catered for an audience that desired to have gold brocades depicted but did not always possess the financial means to own the actual fabrics, and what the skills artists developed in this field contributed to the rising social status of the medium of painting. The material culture of the grand courts at which real gold brocade played an essential role in the display of wealth and status is compared to that of the socially ambitious but less affluent middle class for whom paintings were often the only affordable substitute for courtly splendour. Thus, the book also addresses the problem of the distinction between fact and fiction, imagination and reality in the account of contemporary social history presented in paintings. ER -