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Abandoning a French look on the subject, Mrs. Bossan, the author, develops her study with a dichotomous vision: that of time that touches the history of mankind and that of geography and sociology, which lead to an almost ethnographic analysis. The author dissects the shoe and all that surrounds it: from its history to painting and literature. After this book, it will be difficult to publish a book with a more complete treatment of the subject. Illustrated with an iconography that is exceptional both for its aestheticism and the pieces chosen, this book is a reference for historians, sociologists and for the fashion victims and designers…
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Length8 hrs 32 mins
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Publish dateMay 8, 2012
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Art of the Shoe
2The Art of the Shoe
3New York, USA / VEGAP, Madrid
4Contents
5Introduction The Shoe: Object of Civilization and Object of Art
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6From Antiquity up to our days
7Prehistory
8Antiquity The Shoe in Ancient Eastern Civilizations
9costume and footwear.
10arose in response to Egypt’s climate and geography.
11The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
12The Bible: The Shoe in the Old Testament
13(The Pentateuch, Exodus, III, 5).
14(Deuteronomy, 29:5).
15Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
16Ethiopia their expectation and Egypt their glory’” (Isaiah, 20:1-5).
1716:9 New American Bible).
18The Sandals of Jesus
19Antiquity – The Copts
2019th century, in particular at Achmin.
21shoe with a pointed toe.
22Greece
23with a flap.
2416th century.
25attributed to Léo Charès, marble, The Louvre, Paris.
26Rome
27(military shoes). Rome, 113 AD. Marble.
28Photo by Robert Meulle.
29The Byzantine empire
30The Middle Ages
31reconstruct an image of her shoes as supple leather sandals with straps
3213th century. Saint Mark Basilica, Venice.
33The Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg.
34The Legend of Saint Crispin and Saint Crispinian
35votive offering of 1594 by painter Vital Despigoux.
36The Renaissance
37Weissenfels Museum, with the authorization of Irmgard Sedler.
38International Shoe Museum, Romans.
39around 1570. Château de Versailles.
4017th century
41around 1694. Condé Museum, Chantilly.
42Master Nicolas Lestage, inventor of the incomparable boot without seams.
43International Shoe Museum, Romans.
44the storming of the Bastille.
45and “la Carmagnole.”
46International Shoe Museum, Romans.
4719th century
48Why?
4919th century. International Shoe Museum, Romans.
50Photo by Pierrain, PMVP.