Anonymous; Italy; Florence or Venice.Altar Frontal; 1450-1500.Silk; warp-float faced 3: 1 鈥榋' twill weave with supplementary discontinuous facing brocading wefts forming areas of weft loops (known as boucl茅) tied by secondary binding warps in weft-float faced 3: 1 twill interlacing and supplementary pile warps forming cut; pile on pile; voided velvet; 100.8 x 203.4 cm.Inv. No. 1944.403;Chicago; Art Institute.