Name of Object:

Embroidery

Name in original language:

Bordado

Location:

Madrid, Spain

Holding Institution:

Lázaro Galdiano Museum

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Holding Institution (original language):

Museo Lázaro Galdiano

Date of Object:

Mudejar style (13th–14th century); 1915–1930 (Lázaro Galdiano collection)

Inventory Number:

3836

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Silk and metallic threads; embroidery

Dimensions:

22,4 x 28,6 cm

Provenance:

Spain

Description:

This rich embroidery in the Mudéjar style showed the importance of these goods in the Italian and Spanish Renaissance. The influence of the Arab art in the Renaissance has been overlooked many times, but the Mediterranean ceramics and textiles of this period were influenced, in technique and decoration, by this art.

Citation of this web page:

Ámparo López "Embroidery" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;es;22;en

Prepared by: Ámparo López
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: SP 022