This book is the first to explore the origins and nature of the demand for painting in Bruges over the course of the fifteenth century and its subsequent effect on the community of painters and their workshop and marketing practices. The evolution of Bruges was fundamentally linked with commerce, and as a result of the city’s thriving international trade and rising merchant class, it was to become one of the most affluent and cosmopolitan centers in late medieval Europe. However, only after the Duke of Burgundy moved his court to Bruges in the early decades of the fifteenth century would it begin to be a major center for the production of panel painting. This study examines the coming together of the opulent Burgundian court, an affluent urban bourgeoisie, and an increasingly expanding community of painters, and the effects of this dynamic social configuration on the newly emerging art of oil painting. Specifically, Wilson argues that while the nobility were not particularly active as patrons of paintings, members of the urban patriciate who hoped to enter into the circle of the court were nevertheless influenced by the nobility's culture of display and found that paintings effectively served their needs for representations of their aspirations for social advancement. She further suggests that, in commissioning altarpieces for ecclesiastical interiors, patrons were also concerned to include their portraits and coats of arms in an effort to promote the status and prestige associated with their families. The demand for paintings was therefore to escalate throughout the fifteenth century, resulting in painters' increasing involvement in the reproduction of popular compositions and the eventual emergence of a mass market for their art.

Painting in Bruges at the Close of the Middle Ages: Studies in Society and Visual Culture

Arts & Photography

Wilson, Jean

History & Criticism

Penn State University Press

Weaving Is for Anyone

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Sterling*+ Publishing Company

140p hardback, dustjacket (yellowed), colour plates, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index, very good copy from a Cambridge college library

Weaving is Fun

Van Nost. Reinhold

Demographic Yearbook

Chapman & Hall

96 pages, how to do pile weaves with ends of yarn cut or looped, rising about a flat background and how to do it, bw and 3 color illustrations

Pile Weaves

Van Nostrand Reinhold/co Wiley

Defines the pile weave and provides directions for basic knots and interesting variations

The Pile Weaves: Twenty-Six Techniques and How to Do Them

Encore Editions

A short, straightforward account of the life of the evangelist Billy Graham, and how his mission to preach made him famous throughout the world. For ages 9-13.

Evangelist to the World (Stories of Faith and Fame)

Children's Books

Biographies

Lutterworth Press

The Archaeology of Shakespeare: The Material Legacy of Shakespeare's Theatre

This systematic investigation of the material evidence of the theater and theatrical presentations of Shakespeare's day covers Shakespeare's theatrical and social milieu; the background of the Elizabethan theater; the theatricality of Elizabethan life; major outdoor playhouses; costume; the indoor theaters; and the Rose and Globe excavations. Excellent and abundant b&w illustrations. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Performing Arts

Sutton Pub Ltd

The setting, staging and costuming of Shakespeare's plays illuminate many aspects of the texts and of contemporary social and cultural history. This study investigates the material evidence that bears upon the theater and theatrical presentation in Shakespeare's day. The discovery in 1989 of the foundations of the Rose theater, followed later in the year by the uncovering of the site of Shakespeare's own Globe theater, have transformed our knowledge of the subject. Jean Wilson assesses the results of these investigations in relation to what is known of the other theaters of London, and supplements her findings by the study of other contemporary art. Chapters on the social and cultural background to the Elizabethan theater, as well as on Shakespeare himself, provide the setting for the details of the archaeology. The text also includes nearly 90 illustrations of contemporary paintings, sculptures and buildings.

History

Despite the danger, headstrong Maggie is determined to prove her worth in frontier Colorado, but she gets more than she had bargained for when she encounters a wounded man, irresponsible, wild adventurer Geoffrey Wexford. Original.

Lightning Strikes (Wildflower)

Romance

Historical

Diamond Books

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Painting in Bruges at the Close of the Middle Ages: Studies in Society and Visual Culture

Weaving Is for Anyone

Weaving is Fun

Demographic Yearbook

Pile Weaves

The Pile Weaves: Twenty-Six Techniques and How to Do Them

Evangelist to the World (Stories of Faith and Fame)

The Archaeology of Shakespeare: The Material Legacy of Shakespeare's Theatre

The Archaeology of Shakespeare: The Material Legacy of Shakespeare's Theatre

Lightning Strikes (Wildflower)