TurkoTek: Archive: Rugs and Old Masters: an Essay Series

A number of essays by by Pierre Galafassi and Filiberto Boncompagni.

Read the introductory Main Essay here.

Additional Literature to the Main Essay  Additional Literature

 1. Animal Rugs In Renaissance paintings

Discussion threads (most recent first)

• A famous Crivelli (Shivishar?) carpet  
  
• The painter's fertile imagination
• What are those? page 1 -  page 2 -  page 3 - page 4 
  
• Jacques Coeur's strange carpet 
• The So-Called Leaf and Wineglass Border
• The tile hypotesis  - page2
• Goose walk rugs 
• The "Crivelli" rug - page 2 
  
• Another Tibetan fragment  
• As contribution to the discussion of animal rugs
  

2. Geometric Rugs in Early Renaissance paintings

Discussion threads (most recent first)

• a rare chessboard border rug  
• Painting in Houston MFA 
• MET Carpet Fragment - page1 -  page2
• Reminiscence of fourteenth century Il-khanid rugs in eighteenth century Iranian ones? - page2
• An interesting Spanish rug in a fifteenth century painting 
• Fig. 63 
• Mills on para-Mamluks
• Renaissance reminiscences in Caucasian weavings?
• Spanish silk textiles again 
• A kind of elibelinde design in the field? 
• Beautiful rug with Rub el Hizb medallion 
• Are the «large holbein» rugs Spanish or Anatolian? 
• Fleurs de lys arabesques in a rug 
• Curvilinear stem with leaves border 

  3. A Tale of Three Renaissance Ruggies

Discussion threads (most recent first)

• Small Holbein pattern: Persian or Anatolian?
• A timeline of kufic borders in rugs
• Essay realated to "A timeline of kufic borders in rugs
• About time and value 
  

4. Rugs in 16th and 17th C. English painting 

5. Rugs in paintings of the Dutch Golde Age

Discussion threads (most recent first)

• Quest for the elusive Caucasian rug
• Scheunemann rugs -  page2 
• Addendum to part 5 - Quest for the elusive Caucasian rugs in Renaissance painting
  

6. Rugs in Orientalist paintings
Note - this was archived at the time in HTML. All the four parts of the Salon and related discussions can be accessed by clicking on the links contained inside.

7. Rugs pictured in 5th to 14th C. Asian palace-murals and manuscript paintings