The Italian-made cope is decorated with embroideries (in polychrome silk, gold and silver) depicting landscapes with columns, stairways, oriental palaces and trees with pomegranates and bunches of grapes, dominated by baskets filled with flowers.
The views with architectures and trees laden with fruit recall the textile productions linked to Jean Revel, a Lyonnais artist who between 1730 and 1740 implemented a naturalistic renewal of textile design inspired by landscape painting and contemporary genre painting.
Title: Cope with stole, detail
Author: Anonymous
Date: Second half of the 18th century
Technique: embroidered silk
Displayed in: Museum of the Sanctuary of the Beata Vergine della Ghiara
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