Fri Feb 21, 2020 08:55 PM

Morning Modelbuch (2/22/2020)

Portrait of a Young Woman by Netherlandish painter, approximately 1535. Accession Number:49.7.32 at the Met. The embroidery on her smock is very much in the moresque style with interlocking cartouche-like frames and swirling vinework. (And the hooks and eyes at her neck are an interesting detail.) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437205

Patterns from Francesco Pellegrino’s 1530 _La fleur de la science de pourtraicture Et patrons de broderie. facon arabicque et ytalique_ https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k857536m/f1.image Lotz does not include the moresque style books of ornament like those published by Pellegrino, Peter Flotner, Heironomous Cock, and Geminus on his list. I see the patterns frequently in books he does count, like Tagliente, and they were certainly used as patterns for embroidery. Flotner mentions embroiderers in his title, so I think the books more than qualify as modelbucher.