About This Artwork

Italy

Panel, Early 15th century

Silk, plain weave with three-color supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet
49 x 59.9 cm (19 1/4 x 23 5/8 in.)
Repeat: 19.5 x 6 cm (7 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1954.12

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery,
"Sumptuous Velvets from the Permanent Collection,"
February 27–September 29, 1980

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney Textile Gallery, "European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century," September 27, 1989–January 22, 1990

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries (Seminar Room), "Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection," February 17–May 2, 1993

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

Friedrich Fischbach. Die Wichtigeten Webeornaments, (Wiesbaden: 1901), pl. 106b.

Otto Von Falke. Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei. (Berlin: 1913), pl. 496.

Otto Von Falke. Decorative Silks (New York: 1922. fig.420.

Adele Coulin Weibel. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving (New York: 1944), no. 159. pl. 41 (illustration).

Allen Warnwell and Mildred Davison. "Three Centuries of the Decorative Arts in Italy." Apollo (September, 1966), pp. 188-9, fig. 16

Christa Charlotte Mayer. Masterpieces of Western Textiles (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), pl. 44 (cover), ref. p. 63.

Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), p. 20 (illustration), 21, 143.

The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), p. 225 (Illustration).

The Art Institute of Chicago. “Devotion & Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.” Museum Studies. vol. 30, no. 2 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2004), no. 42.