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Refashioning the Renaissance Blog

Updates on the work we are doing and small tidbits on early modern dress research.

Archive

2023

August

Natural Purples on Silk – Discovering an Early Modern Palette

2022

April

Representing Renaissance textures and colours digitally

January

Knitting a 17th-century silk stocking for the Refashioning the Renaissance participatory research project

2021

February

Did ordinary Italians have a ‘Renaissance’? Discover how artisans lived and connected with culture from my new book!

2020

December

Historical knitting through citizen science
The Renaissance of the Mask: from plague doctor beaks to velvet visards

November

Defence, Honour, and Dress

October

Tracking down tintori in the Florentine state archives

September

At home with a tailor – a multifunctional workspace

August

Dr Victoria Bartels joins the Refashioning the Renaissance project as a Research Fellow
Luxuries that cost human life? Pearls in Early Modern Italy
Farewell to Michele!

July

What happened to the clothing? A case study of a glazier family

June

Pharmaceutical Fashion: The Leather Tanner’s Jewellery Box

April

Una corona di ambra falsa: Imitating Amber using Early Modern Recipes
Living and working during the Pandemic: Extraordinary times then and now

March

To remove Ink, Cherry Juice and Other Stains and Spots

February

When black became the colour of fashion
Call for Papers: Early Career Researchers’ Lightning Talks

January

Collars, Cuffs and Ruffs in Early Modern Italy

2019

December

Put a stamp on it: early modern embossed textiles

November

Dress under the Microscope conference in Lisbon, 12–13 September

October

An inn-keeper’s inventory and inspiration
The theft in the bleachfield

September

Considerations from the Venetian State Archive: Reflecting on Data
Dirty Laundry in Aalto University

August

Farewell and warm thank you our research fellow Stefania!
In the tailor’s workshop: an exhibition

July

An agenda for future research: fashion outside the urban areas
CFP: Fakes, Fabrication and Imitation in Early Modern Dress
Director’s greetings: What have we been up to?

June

New Research in Dress History Conference, 24 May 2019

May

Shoes, dyes, fabrics and lace – Refashioning the Renaissance workshop in Toronto and NYC

April

Thank you to our research assistant Umberto!
Refashioning the Renaissance hosts panels in RSA Toronto
Refashioning the Renaissance Citizen Science Project: Voluntary knitting initiative

March

Sense and Matter in Early Modern Europe: A Conference in Honour of Evelyn Welch

February

Visit to the Turku Cathedral
Sampling tailor’s techniques—launching the experimental phase
Exploring Historical Blacks: The Burgundian Black Collaboratory
Visit to Uppsala and Stockholm, 17–18 October 2018
Tule mukaan neulomaan renessanssin sukkia!

January

Dr Sophie Pitman joins Refashioning the Renaissance project

2018

December

One year of PhD research
How can we gain access to the hidden meanings and complexities that lie behind historical objects and documents?

November

Summing up a year of archival research
From the historical source to a database: a short story

October

Museo del vino, Málaga, Spain
Digital Art History Summer School in Málaga, Spain

September

Museum Objects as Evidence – Summer School in Amsterdam

August

Datini Conference 2018: “Maritime Networks as a Factor of European Integration” (13-17 May 2018)

July

Research Trip to Milan, May 2018
Uncovering the Animal workshop, 29 June 2018
New Research Assistant
Team Meeting in Copenhagen, 20-22 June

June

Art of the Poor conference in London and Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen’s first presentation
Exploring Northern Italy: Team Training Trip

May

CFP: Lower-Class Dress, Fashion and Identity in Europe, 1450–1650
‘Art of Dyeing Silk’ Workshop in Amsterdam on 5–6 April
Full-time Postdoctoral Research Position Available
Album Amicorum: Fashion, Friendship and Foreign Travel in Renaissance Europe
Short Term Research Assistant Job Opportunity

March

Object Biographies Conference in Helsinki

February

Fulling Fun: Presenting Our Project to YLE News

January

Did Dress and Fashion Matter in the Poor Neighbourhoods?
First Advisory Board Meeting in London
Two Postdoctoral Researchers Start Their Work

2017

December

An Example of 16th Century Artisan Self-Fashioning – Master Shoemaker Jens Pedersen from Odense

November

Sumptuary Laws in Denmark: Om Drecht och Klædebon, 1558
Make invisible, visible. News from Venice’s Archive

October

The Fruit Seller, by Vincenzo Campi (1580)
‘Voices from the Colonies’. Exhibition Opening at the National Museum
Apply to Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Our Project

September

All that glitters… in Berlin

June

Archival Research launched in Italy

April

ERC Funded Project Refashioning the Renaissance Launches

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Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen

ABOUT:

Refashioning the Renaissance project combines theoretical perspectives and practical hands-on work to investigate how fashion emerged and developed among new social groups in sixteenth and seventeenth century Western and Nordic Europe.

SUPPORT:

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 726195. We are based in the Aalto University.

IMAGES:

Our front page banner image is “Still life with Fruit” by “Vincenzo Campi (© 2017. Photo Scala, Florence – courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali e del Turismo). All photographs on the website are owned by the Refashioning the Renaissance project, unless otherwise stated.

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