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Fragment Supplemented with Drawing

Paul Schultze

14th century and 19th century

Fragment Supplemented with Drawing by Paul Schultze

Medium

Watercolor with opaque and metallic gold watercolor over pen and crimson and black ink with a swatch of compound twill satin, plain weave, on brown wove paper

Dimensions

47.9 × 37.8 cm (18 7/8 × 14 7/8 in.)

Classification

textile

Department

Textiles

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

63574

Rights

Public Domain

About this artwork

Design professor and museum professional Paul Schulze created this compelling work by augmenting a fragment of 14th-century Italian silk through drawing. Schulze used his expertise to speculatively “re-create” the textile fragment’s full pattern. Through this informed yet imaginative interpretation, Schulze has enabled viewers to appreciate the composition and motifs of a lost original.

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