Altar Frontal
c. 1475
Country
Italy
Object
altar frontal
Medium
Cut and voided velvet with two heights of pile, looped (boucle) details; silk and metal thread
Accession Number
1961.66
Credit Line
Neusteter Textile Collection: Partial gift of Mrs. Churchill Owen and an Anonymous Donor
Altar Frontal, Italy, c.1475. Cut and voided velvet with two heights of pile, looped (boucle) details; silk and metal thread; 29 x 81 in. Neusteter Textile Collection at the Denver Art Museum: Partial gift of Mrs. Churchill Owen and an Anonymous Donor, 1961.66. Photography Courtesy Denver Art Museum
Dimensions
height: 29 in, 73.6600 cm; width: 81 in, 205.7400 cm
Department
Avenir Institute of Textile Arts and Fashion
Collection
Textile Arts and Fashion-European
Sumptuous and expensive, elaborately patterned velvets were used for furnishings and wall coverings, as well as for secular clothing and ecclesiastical vestments. Such fabrics also appear in Flemish Renaissance paintings as a cloth of honor hung behind the Virgin and Child, a saint, or a noble person.
Known Provenance
(French & Company, Inc.), New York, December 1961; Purchased by the Denver Art Museum, 1961.
Exhibition History
- "Time Warp: Historicism in Textile Design," April 24 - October 10, 1999 (DAM)
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