Cape
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- silk, gilt thread
- Origin
- French
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
Art Genome Taxonomy
7 tags
Artistic Disciplines
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Fashion Design and Wearable Art Both · 99%
The object is a wearable garment identified in the catalog as a cape and held by the Costume Institute.
Subject Matter
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Related to Fashion Both · 99%
The image presents historical dress, and the catalog identifies the object as a cape classified as costume.
Visual Qualities
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Patterns Visual · 99%
Repeated floral, geometric, and small emblem-like motifs are distributed across the visible body and sleeves of the garment.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 97%
Decoration covers nearly the entire visible textile, including the body, sleeves, collar, and edges.
Time Periods
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16th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the object to the second half of the sixteenth century, 1551–1589.
Geographic Regions
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French Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog records the place of origin as French.
Textiles
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Use of Fabric Both · 98%
The garment is visibly constructed from textile, and the catalog specifies silk as part of its medium.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Cape. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.