1480~, Lombardy

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Identifier: 14.40.705

Transfer of custody: Victoria and Albert Museum

Acquisition: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913

Collection: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Technique

Velvet 45%
Velvet 82%

Embroidery 99%

Depiction

Floral motif 66%

Dimension: 8.6 cm (height)
10.5 cm (width)

Production time: 1480~
15th century (dates CE)

Production place: Lombardy

Description

The technique of enamel painting is thought to have been introduced into Lombardy between 1470 and 1480. The style here is close to that of several miniature painters who worked for the Milanese ducal court of the Sforza. The frame is a sixteenth-century addition.

The data contained in ADASilk comes from the archives of Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, CDMT Terrassa, Europeana, Gallica, Garín 1820, Joconde Database of French Museum Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mobilier International, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie de Saint-Etienne, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Musée des Tissus, Musei di Venezia, Museo de Arte Sacro El Tesoro de la Concepción, Paris Musées, Red Digital de Colecciones de Museos de España, Rhode Island School of Design, Sicily Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian, Versailles, Victoria and Albert Museum. The Virtual Loom and Spatio-Temporal Maps visualizations have been developed by Universitat de Valencia. ADASilk is based on a generic exploratory search engine for knowledge graphs being developed at EURECOM and includes scientific contributions from Universitat de Valencia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Lyon 2, Universita Degli Studi di Palermo, GARIN 1820 S.A., Institut Jozef Stefan, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Monkeyfab, and Instituto Cervantes.

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