About This Artwork

Italy

Altar Frontal, 1450/1500

Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut, voided velvet
91.5 x 172.8 cm (36 x 68 in.)
Repeat: 40 x 29.2 cm (15 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.)
Buckingham Gothic Collection, 1944.408

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, "Sumptuous Velvets from the Permanent Collection," March 1–June 1, 1980

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Heralding a Vestment Collection," September 11, 1996–January 12, 1997

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Renaissance Velvets and Silks," December 18, 2002–April 13, 2003

Publication History

Meyric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz. Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1945), p. 72, no. 61.

Cyril G.E. Bunt. Florentine Faberics (Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, Publishers, LTD., 1962), fig. 46.