Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . , even the traditionally nude figures of Adamand Eve are clothed—not heavily clothed, it is true, but still clothed—not entirely nude. The Renaissance, with its study of ancient statuaryand imitation of ancient painting, changed all this. Even if GiulioRomano did not illustrate Aretin indecently, as has been said bysom
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . , even the traditionally nude figures of Adamand Eve are clothed—not heavily clothed, it is true, but still clothed—not entirely nude. The Renaissance, with its study of ancient statuaryand imitation of ancient painting, changed all this. Even if GiulioRomano did not illustrate Aretin indecently, as has been said bysome, yet in all his designs there is a passion for the nude, a fondnessfor the unclothed, which definitely distinguishes the spirit and motifsof the sixteenth century from those of the fifteenth. The personagesof Late Gothic tapestries, such as the Prophecy of Nathan, illustratedon Plate VII of Chapter XIII, were magnificently and splendidlydraped in long and all-concealing robes. The costumes of the Renais-sance, more or less borrowed from the ancient Romans, reveal muchmore. Whiskers also distinguish Renaissance tapestries from Gothictapestries. The fifteenth century had been a clean-shaven faces had seemed completely innocent of hair and their heads 271. Plate III—SAINT PAUL BEFORE AGRIPPA AND BERENICEEarly Renaissance tapestry in the Royal Spanish collection
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