Embroidery art in the Middle Ages

Embroidery art in the Middle Ages

October 23, 2019 January 20, 2020 Exhibition has ended
Embroidery with silk, gold and silver threads is one of the most precious and prestigious arts of the Middle Ages. And yet... These works are nowadays unknown. The museum has one of the most beautiful collections of embroidery from the 12th to 16th centuries in the world. This exhibition is an opportunity for them to interact with other masterpieces from international collections. Curator: Christine Descatoire (Chief Curator of Heritage, Musée de Cluny), Astrid Castres (Senior Lecturer, Ecole pratique des hautes études) and Nadège Gauffre-Fayolle (independent researcher), Associate Curators.
Literature & Essays

Big horns and high attire. Nein and fashion in the Middle Ages

SZ006333
FRENCH LANGUAGE

This book is a pioneering and brilliant study of the hennine, a great headdress so widespread in the collective imagination as the characteristic female clothing attribute of the late Middle Ages.
Alix Durantou went to the springs, those of the 15th century. It has gathered a corpus of texts from novels, chronicles, sermons by preachers and moralists, etc. and more than three hundred images, mainly illuminations and sculptures.
She used these documents to construct a reasoning that placed hennin at the heart of religious and social debates in the late Middle Ages.

176 pages / 368 illustrations
French language

Collection « Mémoires de recherche de l'École du Louvre »

Rmn-Grand Palais publishing
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