As promised, our blog post this time features video footage from the Dress & Jewellery Workshop we held at the V&A in February this year. It shows a number of the participants who generously contributed their specialist knowledge on the day, as summarised in our last post, and gives a flavour of the lively exchange … Continue reading Highlights from the Dress & Jewellery Workshop
Comparative Textiles from the Victoria and Albert Museum Collections
Following our Workshop on Dress and Jewellery for the Unwrapping an Icon project at the Victoria and Albert Museum in February 2018, in this post we’d like to share a few of the comparative examples of textiles in the V&A collections that we examined during the event. Fig. A. The Lady’s fine, translucent veil with … Continue reading Comparative Textiles from the Victoria and Albert Museum Collections
WORKSHOP ON DRESS AND JEWELLERY, VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The dress and jewellery represented in the Lady in a Fur Wrap portrait may provide invaluable clues as to the status and identity of the sitter and the dating of the portrait, yet the combination of elements remains puzzling. Over the years, scholars have commented on a number of aspects of the dress and jewellery … Continue reading WORKSHOP ON DRESS AND JEWELLERY, VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
Visit to Banco Santander Collection
Our recent visit to the Banco Santander Collection, Madrid also provided much food for thought – with specific reference to the portrait of Doña Juana de Mendoza and a Dwarf there. As a result of our visit and our meeting with the Curator, María Beguiristain and Board members Paloma Botín and Belén Fernández, our further … Continue reading Visit to Banco Santander Collection
Visit to the Prado Museum
Our project Unwrapping an Icon has now entered its second year, during which we will be seeking to deepen our knowledge of the Lady in a Fur Wrap and related sixteenth-century portraits in the Stirling Maxwell Collection and widen our understanding of their context. We continue to draw on our invaluable learning experiences during our … Continue reading Visit to the Prado Museum
Unwrapping an Icon 