id: 108832 accession number: 1926.507 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.507 updated: 2022-06-15 09:00:10.091000 Parrots and Animals, 1300s. Italy, 14th century. Silk, gold thread; a combination of two weaves (lampas); overall: 84.8 x 26.7 cm (33 3/8 x 10 1/2 in.); mounted: 90.2 x 33 cm (35 1/2 x 13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1926.507 title: Parrots and Animals title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1300s creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1399 current location: creditline: Gift of J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: Italy, 14th century technique: silk, gold thread; a combination of two weaves (lampas) department: Textiles collection: T - Ecclesiastical type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 84.8 x 26.7 cm (33 3/8 x 10 1/2 in.); Mounted: 90.2 x 33 cm (35 1/2 x 13 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 2000 Years of Silk Weaving opening date: 1944-01-09T05:00:00 2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944). title: Ca. 1300 opening date: 1965-09-26T04:00:00 Ca. 1300. Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (organizer) (September 26-November 7, 1965). title: East-West in Art opening date: 1966-06-22T04:00:00 East-West in Art. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN. title: Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2012-11-14T05:00:00 Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2012-December 10, 2013). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Circa 1300. Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN (September 26-November 7, 1965).
East-West in Art. Indiana University Museum, Bloomington, IN (June 22-October 15, 1966).
Gallery 216 installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1991). --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Silk weaving became an important industry in Italy during the 13th century, especially in Lucca and Venice. Initially, it was closely associated with silk patterns that were woven in the well established textile industry in Islamic Spain. Here, the Islamic influence is apparent in the paired eagles and gazelles flanking concentric bulb-shaped palmettes. Many variations of this design were woven in Italy during the 1300s. Examples that belonged to a pope, cardinal, and bishop provide dates between 1334 and 1361 based on their obituaries. Inventories in the Vatican also describe vestments displaying animals and birds with gold heads throughout the1300s. Here, costly gold thread was only interlaced where it is visible in the pattern. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952. page number: p. 128, no. 170 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 162 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n41 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 56 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n80 Klesse, Brigitte. Seidenstoffe in der italienischen Malerei des 14. Jahrhunderts. Bern: Stämpfli, 1967. page number: abb. 5 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 56 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n80 Wardwell, Anne E. 1977. "The Stylistic Development of 14th- and 15th-Century Italian Silk Design". Aachener Kunstblätter / Hrsg. Im Auftr. Des Vorstandes Des Aachener Museumsvereins. 177-226. page number: fig. 2, p. 181 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 62 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n82 Wardwell, Anne E. 1978. "Italian Gothic Silks in the Museum Collection". Bulletin / Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 6-23. page number: fig. 1, p. 6 url: Wilson, Kax. A History of Textiles. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1979. page number: pl. 41 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.507/1926.507_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.507/1926.507_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.507/1926.507_full.tif