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Item Number: 110209
Title: Illuminating Fashion : Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands, 1325-1515
Author: Van Buren, Anne H. ; Roger S. Wieck
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781904832904
Description: Edited by Roger S. Wieck. London: Giles, in association with the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2011. 30cm., hardcover, 431pp., 298 color illus. Summary: Illuminating Fashion focuses on the use of dress and costume in the art of France and the Netherlands during the later medieval period. It examines the use of emblems and imagery, surviving visual records of dress and costume, the use of medieval images depicting dress and costume and how such images can be used in studying the history of fashion, dating a work of art, or interpreting a medieval picture. Publication of an in-depth study of medieval dress and costume is long overdue. Other than Medieval Dress and Fashion (Margaret Scott, 2007) and Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images (edited by Desiree G. Koslin and Janet Synder, 2002), neither of which are extensive volumes, there has not been a comprehensive study of Medieval dress and costume until now. At the heart of the work is the Album: A Pictorial History of Fashion, 1325 to 1515, featuring over 280 colour illustrations taken from tapestries, illuminated manuscripts and illustrated texts from France, Holland and Burgundy. This is followed by an annotated and comprehensive glossary, and a detailed list of dated and datable art works that portray contemporaneous civilian dress . This richly illustrated volume will be of special interest to fashion and art historians. The book is also an investigation into the depiction of dress and costume and how this can be used to study medieval society generally, rather than a study of the technical aspects of costumes per se. The high level of scholarship will ensure this volume’s appeal to a broad range of scholars.
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