Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:00 PM

Morning Modelbuch (9/25/2019)

I was reading _Art and Love in Renaissance Italy_ and ran into this linen cap dated between 1500-1525. While I had seen small pictures of it before, the digital version of the book has a really great photo that made me take another look. The cap is embroidered in gold and silver metallics and pink, blue, black, red, and green silk with glass beads for things like the bird’s eyes, and an edging of red silk and more gold.

The little slip style flowers turn up a lot later, as well as in the ancillary books like herbals which were used for designs, but there are some in Tagliente as well. Flip the page and there are plenty of birds to choose from as well. Seeing them in the book is a great example of the books pulling from fashion and demonstrating how the patterns in them reflected what was already in use.

Women’s linen cap, object 16.154.14 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/219857

Giovanni Antonio Tagliente _Essempio di recammi_, first published in 1527. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/357722

You can either read _Art and Love_ ed. by Andrea Bayer and published in 2008, online or download a pdf copy for free from the Met’s publications. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Art_and_Love_in_Renaissance_Italy