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A series of free #materialculture events @Warburg_News | Theme for 2024-25: Work v. Play | Tweets by @LouisaMcKenzie.

Warburg Institute, London Beigetreten Ekim 2020
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Join us for Painting Icons: A History of the Portrait from Byzantium to Basquiat, an online short course led by @LouisaMcKenzie. Discover how portraiture has evolved as a tool of power—from religious icons to modern celebrity. 4 June – 2 July 2025, 2-4pm buff.ly/4izjcBa
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Image: John Riley, Bridget Holmes, 1686, oil on canvas, Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 405667. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons with thanks to the Royal Collection Trust/ His Majesty The King/ Historic Royal Palaces.
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Image: Ludwig Maximilian Mehemet von Königstreu, published by George Kitchin after Godfrey Kneller, mezzotint, 1715. National Portrait Gallery London, NPG D38146. Creative Commons CC. BY. NC. ND.
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📣 One week to go until our first event of 2024-25! Hear Timothy McCall on ‘Dyes that Kill and Mordants that Bite: The Centres and Margins of Luxury in Renaissance Italy’. 📆 18 November 🕰️ 5:30pm UK time 📍online @Warburg_News 🔗 Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mater…

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Image: Fritz Coler, Waidgießer, 1529 from Stadtbibliothek im Bildungscampus Nürnberg, Amb. 279.2° (Landauer I), f. 20r. Public Domain.
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📣 One week to go until our first event of 2024-25! Hear Timothy McCall on ‘Dyes that Kill and Mordants that Bite: The Centres and Margins of Luxury in Renaissance Italy’. 📆 18 November 🕰️ 5:30pm UK time 📍online @Warburg_News 🔗 Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mater…
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The elaborate dress you see on monarchs in portraits was a talisman for power. The point was to create an otherworldly image and convey a powerful, imposing presence, which helped legitimize both their role on the throne and the institution of monarchy itself.
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Very fair critique. I shouldn't be comparing the dress of different social classes. I should also note that I don't actually think the suit's rise is purely about British imperialism (that's too simple), but rather forces later described as liberalism. 🧵
Dr. Alexander S. Burns@KKriegeBlog

So, with the greatest respect to Derek for his fashion sense, which in a modern setting completely outstrips my own, I do want to offer a few thoughts on this thread, as a professional historian who has constructed many reproduction items of clothing from the 18th Century. 🧵1/20

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Image: Cut voided velvet on satin foundation weave, 15th c., Italian, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public domain.
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Image details: French, Roundel with Playing at Quintain, c. 1500, colourless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain, 21.3 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1980, accession number: 1980.223.6. Public domain.
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