About this artwork
Maria Monaci Gallenga often found inspiration for her fashion and furnishing designs in historic Italian textiles, as with the dress panel to the right. However, for this velvet pillow cover Gallenga employed the winged globe or sun disk, framed by rearing, protective female cobras, a motif she adapted from Egyptian art. This kind of imagery, included in an influential illustrated survey of Egyptian art and architecture published in 1809, became popular among European and American artists during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
—Modern Velvet: A Sense of Luxury in the Age of Industry, Oct 21, 2016-Mar 19, 2017, Galleries 57-59
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Artist
- Maria Monaci Gallenga
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Title
- Cushion Cover
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Place
- Rome (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1911
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Medium
- Cotton and silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut, solid velvet; stenciled
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Dimensions
- 44.5 × 129.5 cm (17 1/2 × 51 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society
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Reference Number
- 1994.290
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