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"title": "Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church",
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"title": "Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115",
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"description": "This superb quality silk with radiant gold thread on a rich green ground ranked among the most extravagant textiles woven in Italy during the 1300s. The Italian silk designer combined primarily exotic Chinese and Islamic motifs into the exceptionally dynamic pattern in the international style. Mythical beasts with flaming manes appear amid large palmette leaves. A chasuble in this fabric has survived, hidden during World War II behind a false wall in Saint Mary\u2019s Church in Gdansk, Poland. A remarkably similar silk provides the lavish background in the museum\u2019s painting John the Baptist by the Flemish painter Robert Campin. The display of such luxury continues the practice of using the finest items in the worship of God.",
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"citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. \"Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 1 (1987): 2-35.",
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