Material girl. Helena Fourment wearing a Huyck / Bert Watteeuw. 'Wrought with flowers and leaves' : Embroidery depicted in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century British portraits - the era of Rubens / Karen Hearn -- 'Inde sottigheydt van al syn Hooverdyen' : Exploring the value of southern-Netherlandish moralising, satirical and other written sources (1625-1700) to the study of the history of costume / Hannelore Magnus -- Dark witnesses : Archaeological discoveries in Antwerp / Frieda Sorber -- The materiality of contemporary dress depicted by Rubens and other Flemish painters / Johannes Pietsch -- Redressing Japan : Kosode/No Kosode in Ruben's world' / Susan Miller -- Rubens and 'the source and origin of all the pretty fashions in Italy'. The Portrait of Isabella d'Este in Red / Sara van Dijk -- 'Much industry and arte' : Hair and beards at the court of Charles I / Susan Vincent -- In search of the origins of the Huik : Did the Spanish play a part in its introduction? / Bianca M. du Mortier -- Material girl. Helena Fourment wearing a Huyck / Bert Watteeuw.
Summary:
"A range of perspectives on the convergence of costume, art and history in the early modern Low Countries. The essays collected in this volume meet at a point of convergence between costume, art, and history, and focus on the seventeenth-century Southern Netherlands. 'Undressing Rubens' looks at the significance of costume in life and art in the age of Rubens, confirming that, as is increasingly recognised by scholars of many aspects of early modern European culture, this is hardly an insular topic. Cloth and clothing in seventeenth-century Flemish paintings lead the contributing scholars north of the border to the United Provinces, south to courts in Florence, Mantua, Madrid and elsewhere, and east to Cologne and, ultimately, to Japan. Stretching back several centuries to provide critical context and points of origin for many seventeenth-century practices and ideas, the innovative research presented here also points forward in time, dealing with implications in later centuries but also, in many cases, engaging directly with questions of historiography still quite relevant today."--Dust jacket.
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