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Identifier: 234-1881

Collection: Textiles and Fashion Collection

Material: Silver thread
Silk

Technique: Velvet
Embroidery

Depiction

Geometrical motif 77%

Dimension: 96.52 cm (depth)
292.1 cm (length)

Production time: 17th century (dates CE)

Production place: Italy

Type of object: fabrics
religious accessories
religious attire

Description

Unique altar frontal of crimson velvet embroidered with scroll work and grotesques of coloured silks and gold and silver thread, fringed with gold embroidered velvet, 1600s, Italian; grotesques, scrolls in silks and metal on crimson, fringed with gold

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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