Scenes of the Life of the Virgin, from an Altar Frontal
1330s or 1340s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Scenes of the Life of the Virgin, from an Altar Frontal, 1330s or 1340s. Italy, Florence, 14th century. Silk, gold thread, linen; raised work, embroidery: split, stem, running, fishbone, and couching stitches; overall: 16.8 x 127 cm (6 5/8 x 50 in.); mounted: 27.9 x 137.2 cm (11 x 54 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1978.36
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Embroidery
- Formatted Medium
- Silk, gold thread, linen; raised work, embroidery: split, stem, running, fishbone, and couching stitches
- Medium
- silk, gold, thread, linen, raised, work, embroidery, split, stem, running, fishbone, couching, stitches
- Dimensions
- Overall: 16.8 x 127 cm (6 5/8 x 50 in.); Mounted: 27.9 x 137.2 cm (11 x 54 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1978.36
- Credit Line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1978, Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages, Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church, Only for Beauty? (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115, Art of Embroidery in Late Medieval Europe (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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