Fragment Supplemented with Drawing
14th century and 19th century
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
47.9 × 37.8 cm (18.9 × 14.9 in)
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In the collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · as of July 2026
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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG
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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