The proceedings of the conference (Un)dressing Rubens. Fashion and Painting in Seventeenth-century Antwerp (Rubenianum, 8-9 mei 2014) discuss a range of perspectives on the convergence of costume, art, and history in the early modern Low Countries.
Contents
Introduction
Abigail D. Newman and Lieneke Nijkamp
Clothing Rubens’s Antwerp: Everyday Urban Dress in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
Isis Sturtewagen
‘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 Rubens’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
Publication
A. Newman, L. Nijkamp (eds.)
Undressing Rubens. Fashion and Painting in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp.
London: Harvey Miller, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-912554-22-5.
232 p., ill.
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