Fabric of Images
Edited by Caroline Villers

ISBN: 1-873132-27-1 • 2000 • $65 • Paper

During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, painting on textile supports was carried out side by side with panel paintings all over Europe. So few works survive that this important aspect of artistic production has been overlooked, especially in Italy, and the appearance of these rare paintings is frequently misunderstood. This volume of essays by conservators and art historians adopts an interdisciplinary approach to visual and written evidence in order to reconstruct what can be known about original display, function, and painting technique—defining a new subject area that has implications for both conservation practice and historical study.