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

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

what, why & howtwining & chainingbrocade weaves & pick-up weavesopenwork weaves: leno & gauzetapestrypile weaves, knots & loopsedges, hems, bands, beltsjoiningsfringescolor illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index ~ 268 pages

Weaving is Creative

Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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

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

Weaving is for Anyone

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

The first of two volumes, this biography of Siegfried Sassoon covers his life up to the end of World War I. A descendant from a dynasty of merchant princes and a line of famous artists, he was a Jew turned Catholic, a husband and father who enjoyed close relationships with members of his own sex (Stephen Tennant among others). Celebrated as the author of some of the most moving war poems and of the "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man", Sassoon's inner feelings have nonetheless remained imprisoned in his diaries, only a proportion of which it has been deemed appropriate to publish thus far. With Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves, Sassoon struggled with his sexuality, a story he wanted to capture himself to bridge "the raging (or lethargic) river of intolerance which divides creatures of my temperament from a free and unsecretive existence among their fellow men". Prevented from doing so by the law, however, he died in 1967, the year in which homosexuality was legalised. This biography is the result of seven years of research. In this first volume the author traces Sassoon's life as one of the Gilded Youth of the Great War generation and the first modern figure of the 20th century. A friend to everyone worth knowing, ranging from the Sitwells to Sir Winston Churchill, Sassoon was forced to come to terms with the banality of a war, at the same time as dealing with changes in his own identity.

Siegfried Sassoon: the Making of a Poet: A Biography (Vol 1)

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

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