A Material World

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

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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
https://t.co/yONiAkwW9a

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I’m thrilled to be leading this ONLINE #shortcourse over 5 Wed pms at @Warburg_News from 4 June.

Learn about the development and use of #portraiture.

#arthistory #art

Find out more and book (fees apply): https://t.co/WHnKpBqzx3

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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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Happening tomorrow online @Warburg_News ! Curator Mishka Sinha on 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects'.

Book for free: https://t.co/8Sjg71HxGt

#untoldhistory #materialculture #museums #curating #curatorial #materialmonday

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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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Join us on Tuesday (26/11) at 5:30pm, online @Warburg_News, to hear curator Mishka Sinha (@HRP_palaces) on 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects'.

Book for free: https://t.co/8Sjg71I5w1

#untoldhistory #materialculture #museums #curating

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Go #behindthescenes of a recent @HRP_palaces exhibition with one of the curators, Mishka Sinha, in our next event, 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects'
📆 26/11
🕰️5:30pm
📍online @Warburg_News
Book for free: https://t.co/8Sjg71HxGt

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Starting in an hour! ⬇️ #materialculture #renaissancehistory

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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: https://t.co/swM88P9quG

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Explore the dark side of #Renaissance luxury in @AMaterial_World talk ‘Dyes that Kill and Mordants that Bite’

Join Professor Timothy McCall online as he reveals the deadly world of fashion.

Book your spot: https://t.co/b3IxCR6xl0

18 November 2024, 5:30 - 7pm | #RenTwitter

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#socialhistory #historyoffashion #dresshistory #renaissance #materialculture #earlymodern #arthistory #politicalhistory

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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: https://t.co/swM88P9quG

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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: https://t.co/swM88P9quG

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@dieworkwear Your followers might be interested in our tangentially related upcoming event exploring the role that clothing’s materiality played in the representation and operation of aristocratic power in #earlymodern Europe. More and free booking: https://t.co/swM88P9quG

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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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Have you booked for our next event yet?
On 18/11, online, discover the role that clothing played in the representation and operation of aristocratic power in #earlymodern Europe. Find out more and book for free: https://t.co/swM88P9quG

#dresshistory #renaissance

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Join us for our first event of 2024/5:
Timothy McCall (@VillanovaU) will speak 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: https://t.co/swM88P9quG

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You can also now find us at:

@ https://t.co/viNVJdHPUh!

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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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We're delighted to be back for another year at @Warburg_News. Our theme for this year is Work v. Play.

We'll be announcing details of our exciting first events very soon!

#materialculture #RenTwitter #MedievalMonday #MedievalTwitter #earlymodern

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How did Renaissance cardinals use gardens to project power?

Ellen Sharman's @AMaterial_World talk delves into the symbolism of earthworks and water in Roman villa gardens. 🌱💧

Watch the full discussion here: https://t.co/e4R0xlFP29 #RenTwitter #Twitterstorians