L’imitation des tissus précieux sur quelques sculptures valdôtaines, entre XVe et XVIe siècle

Abstract

In the Aosta Valley, research on applied brocade, especially on late medieval polychrome sculptures, is still at an early stage. On the examples presented, which all date back to the second half of the XVth century and early XVIth century, we can see that a lot of attention went into the material rendering of the cloths and that the pressbrokat appears on some of them. It is an imported technique, that seems to originate from the neighboring areas of Savoy or that spread along the commercial routes, connecting the westerner part of the Aosta Valley to the german-speaking cultural areas.

Keywords

• sculpture
• Aoste Valley
• applied brocade
• brocade
• gold
• painting