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Margaret F. Rosenthal and Ann Rosalind Jones, The Clothing of the Renaissance World (2008)
by Katy Bond When Cesare Vecellio published his celebrated book of world dress in 1590, the Earth’s horizons must have seemed to the Venetian artist, to be ever-expanding. First published under the title, ‘Degli habiti antichi et oderni di diverse parti del mondo’ (‘Of the clothing, ancient and modern, of diverse parts of the world’),…
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Exposing the ‘Naked Man’: A 16th-century motif of cultural nudity
by Katy Bond “Everyone’s way is made known through clothing” said Hans Weigel, author of a 1577 costume book of Nuremberg which illustrated the dress of a variety of nations.[i] In Renaissance Europe, it was expected that one’s countrymen would be identifiable through distinctive modes of dressing.
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Played to death: bringing music back to life
Written By Anastazja Grudnicka | @AGrudnicka Every once in a while I come across a certain kind of evidence that stays on my mind long after I move on with my research. Sometimes it’s the source itself, other times it’s the circumstances in which a particular text, object, picture appears that makes it echo at the…
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