Index of Medieval Art

Work of Art Record 42733

Christie No.: 95 -
Christie No.: 95 -

Record No

42733

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 95

Location

Italy, Pienza: Museum, Museo Diocesano

Date

1315 - 1335

Subject Headings

Diagram

Notes

Cope of Pope Pius II.

Citations

De Farcy, L., "Deux chapes en broderie du XIVe siècle," Revue de l'art chrétien, XXXVIII (1888), pp. 174-185; pl. VII

De Farcy, L., Broderie (1890), I, pp. 127-128; II, pl. 45

Morris, M., "Opus Anglicanum, III. The Pienza Cope," Burlington Magazine, VII (1905), pp. 54-65; pls. I-III; figs. 1-2

Braun, J., Die liturgische Gewandung (1907), p. 346; fig. 165

Migeon, G., Arts du tissu (1909), p. 140; fig. p. 137

Mannucci, G. B., "Museo della Cattedrale di Pienza," Arte cristiana, IV (1916), pp. 178-179; figs. pp. 178-180

Mannucci, G. B., Pienza: Arte e storia (1927), pp. 89-100; pls. opp. pp. 96-97

Mannucci, G. B., "Piviale di Pio II," Arte cristiana, XVII (1929), pp. 194-208; figs.

Kurth, B., "Zwei englische Stickerei-Fragmente mit der Legende des Hl. Thomas Becket," Pantheon, XV (1935), p. 162

Christie, A., English Medieval Embroidery (1938), pp. 176-183 (no. 95); pls. CXXXIX-CXLII; figs. 2, 4, 28, 31, 143-147

Würtenberger, F., "Von der Textil-Ausstellung in Rom," Pantheon, XXII (1938), p. 225; fig. 4

Hoberg, H., Die Inventare des päpstlichen Schatzes in Avignon 1314-1376 (1944), p. 423 (MS Collect. 468, f. 196v)

Rickert, M., Painting in Britain: The Middle Ages (1954), p. 152

Schuette, M., & Müller-Christensen, S., Das Stickereiwerk (1963), pp. 15, 32; fig. 103

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Opus Anglicanum (1963), pp. 31-32 (54); pl. 11

Carli,E., Pienza: La città di Pio II (1966), pp. 117, 137 n. 50; color pls. XXVII (entire), XXVIII (Annunciation), XXIX (Nativity), XXX (Coronation)

Bignozzi Montefusco, F., Piviale di San Domenico (1970), p. 31; pl. 10

Brel-Bordaz, O., Broderies d'ornements liturgiques, XIIIe-XIVe siècle (1982), figs. 53-55

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Age of Chivalry (1987), pp. 52, ; figs. 21, 114

King, D., "Ricami inglesi nell' Italia del Medioevo," Piviale duecentesco di Ascoli Piceno (1991), p. 30 and n. 17; fig. p. 31

Staniland, K., Embroiderers (1991), p. 26; frontispiece; fig. 23

Giorgi, M., & Palei, G., "Opus anglicanum del Piviale di Pio II," OPD restauro, VI (1994), pp. 212-223; figs. 1, 4, 6-7, 9-10, 12-17, 19, 23, 25-28

Pienza, Museo diocesano (1998), pp. 63-67 (35); 3 color pls.

Piviale di Pio II (2001), passim

Synge, L., Art of embroidery: history of style and technique (2001), p. 47; fig. 41

Johnstone, P., High Fashion in the Church (2002), p. 43; fig. 43

Larson, W., "Role of Patronage and Audience in the Cults of Sts. Margaret and Marina of Antioch," Gender and Holiness: Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe (2002), p. 31 and nn. 43, 46

Ward, S., "Saints in Split Stitch: Representations of Saints in Opus Anglicanum Vestments," Medieval Clothing and Textiles, III (2007), pp. 49-51; fig. 3.7

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