Chasuble
The bold, almost brash, design of this brocaded silk, with its oversized crimson flowers and bright green leaves, is perhaps not best suited for a priest to wear when performing the liturgy within a Catholic church space. It perhaps then comes as little surprise that this textile was only repurposed to create the current garment as many as one hundred years after it was woven. Abrasions across the chest area on the front of the chasuble, however, reveal that- once assembled- it must have received plenty of wear.
Artwork Details
- Title: Chasuble
- Date: ca. 1775, cut and reassembled ca. 1875
- Culture: Italian
- Medium: Silk and metal thread
- Dimensions: 29 1/2 in. × 27 in. (74.9 × 68.6 cm)
- Classifications: Textiles-Woven, Textiles-Ecclesiastical
- Credit Line: Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1952
- Object Number: 52.1.9
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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Italian
late 17th century (textile); 18th century (current appearance)
Niccolo Michetti
ca. 1715
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1835
Italian, Venice
ca. 1730–35
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio
1530–1539
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