Late 1500's - Liberal Arts Hanging Set


"Arithmetric from the Liberal Arts set. She has clothes of silk taffeta striped with metal thread and a stamped pattern, laid over shaped padding and the drapery is further defined with paint and stitches. The grostesque mask over the key stone is worked with silk on canval. (66 x 52 cm" (page 66)

"Detail of Perspective from the Liberal Arts set showing the painted shading on her cloth of silver robe and the damaged painted taffeta of her arm." (page 66)

Source: Levey, Santina M. Elizabethan Treasures the Hardwick Hall Textiles National Trust Enterprises, LTD. London 1998. ISBN: 0-8109-6353-1 Distributed in the US by Harry N. Abrams, Inc, NY.

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