- 80 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Costume and Ornament of the Middle Ages in Full Color
About this book
More than a pictorial archive of medieval dress and decoration, this beautiful collection is also valuable for its discerning scholarship. A magnificent compilation of artwork from Henry Shaw's detailed study of court life in the Middle Ages, this splendid book provides a grand display of medieval figures and fashions of the times.
Reproduced directly from Shaw's original, hand-colored plates and identified by brief captions, more than 200 superb illustrations depict knights in battle, ladies in waiting, kings, queens, popes, and commoners, as well as armor and weapons, jewelry, and other decorative accessories. Skillfully adapted from rare paintings, illuminated manuscripts, tapestries, textiles, and stained glass windows, these lovely illustrations will be invaluable to fashion historians and costume designers. Craftworkers will find them equally useful.
Reproduced directly from Shaw's original, hand-colored plates and identified by brief captions, more than 200 superb illustrations depict knights in battle, ladies in waiting, kings, queens, popes, and commoners, as well as armor and weapons, jewelry, and other decorative accessories. Skillfully adapted from rare paintings, illuminated manuscripts, tapestries, textiles, and stained glass windows, these lovely illustrations will be invaluable to fashion historians and costume designers. Craftworkers will find them equally useful.
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Between 1840 and 1880, Victorian tastes leaned ever increasingly toward an artistic interest in the Middle Ages. A leading proponent of the gothic revival in the decorative arts, Henry Shaw (1800-1873) drew inspiration from this exceptionally rich time in art history. An antiquarian scholar and watercolorist, Shaw produced several books on manuscript illumination as well as on medieval and Elizabethan art and architecture. His fascination with initial letters and other medieval-style dress and ornamentation culminated in the publication of Dresses and Decoration of the Middle Ages (1843) and The Decorative Arts of the Middle Ages (1851).
Culled from the best of Henry Shaw’s volumes, the present edition reproduces, in full color, a selection of costumes and motifs from the dawning of the M...
Table of contents
- DOVER PICTORIAL ARCHIVE SERIES
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- NOTE