id: 123436 accession number: 1943.66 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.66 updated: 2022-01-04 15:29:49.535000 Six-Color Chasuble Front with Animal Pattern, 1415-25. Italy. Silk, polychrome velvet with cut pile; overall: 80 x 57.8 cm (31 1/2 x 22 3/4 in.); mounted: 86.4 x 63.5 cm (34 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.66 title: Six-Color Chasuble Front with Animal Pattern title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1415-25 creation date earliest: 1415 creation date latest: 1425 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy technique: Silk, polychrome velvet with cut pile department: Textiles collection: T - Ecclesiastical type: Velvet find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 80 x 57.8 cm (31 1/2 x 22 3/4 in.); Mounted: 86.4 x 63.5 cm (34 x 25 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: 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). title: Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2018-12-05T05:00:00 Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 5, 2018-December 2, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Masterpieces of the Weavers' Art. Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI (October 7-November 3, 1957).
Aspects of Late Medieval Art. Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH (October 31-November 22, 1958).
Raiment for the Lord's Service, A Thousand Years of Western Vestments. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 11, 1975-January 18, 1976).
Gallery 216 installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 1991). --- PROVENANCE Figdor Collection; von Nemes Collection date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Few velvets were woven in Italy with as many as six colors of pile, such as this front panel from a chasuble. The chasuble is the main sleeveless outer vestment worn by priests while officiating during Mass. The resulting weave highlights a complex animal pattern in which deer appear behind a fence and peacocks flank a fountain above—an artistic fashion that emerged in the 1300s. This complicated weaving process was gradually abandoned during the 1400s in favor of monochrome floral patterns that were often embellished with gold. --- 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. 141, no. 222 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. 165 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n41 Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Aspects of Late Mediaeval Art; The Mediaeval Conference, the Ohio State University. 1958. page number: no. 6 url: Bunt, Cyril G. E. Venetian Fabrics. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1959. page number: fig. 4 url: 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. 60 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n84 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. 60 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n84 Mayer-Thurman, Christa C., John Maxon, Aidan Kavanagh, Donald L. Garfield, and Horace T. Allen. Raiment for the Lord's Service: A Thousand Years of Western Vestments. Chicago: Art Institute, 1975. page number: p. 106, no. 28 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. 67 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n87 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.66/1943.66_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.66/1943.66_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.66/1943.66_full.tif