Sat Sep 29, 2018 09:08 PM

Morning Modelbuch (6/21/2018)

Translating pattern to piece can be a bit daunting, so finding examples of patterns worked up into surviving objects is always fun. Especially when they are done in different mediums. Giovanni Vavassore’s _Esemplario di Lauori_ first published in 1530 has a band with the word Liberta. The Met has a drawnwork version and another done in red silk. I’ve also included Portrait of a Lady with Apple, dated 1539. While it isn’t the exact pattern, the decoration on her belt and brustfleck is a similar style with motto swirling around vegetation and I think it’s an interesting idea for use if a pattern.

Vavassore at the BAF https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10548011w/f45.item.r=Vavassore Copy at the Met https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/358317 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/226394 Links to the embroidery pieces https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/215405 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/219976 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/215406 Barthel Bruyn portrait at Oberlin College http://www2.oberlin.edu/amam/Bruyn_LadyPortrait.htm