Alessandro Nicola Malusà, PhD

Dress Historian & Curator / Postdoctoral Affiliate History @Cambridge_Uni @CorpusCambridge Insta @fashionhistorian 50%🇮🇹50%🇵🇱Born🇺🇸

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

Time to revisit the most popular treasure in Taiwan's National Palace Museum ~ the Jadeite Cabbage, carved from single variegated piece of jadeite, ingeniously taking advantage of variegations & defects, just 18cm (7in) high. Locust & katydid hide in leaves (at R) (Qing Dynasty)

[Micheline White @WhiteMicheline]

Geneva Bible (1639); embroidered binding by Anne Cornwallis Leigh ca 1640. Super-sized serpent (!) and Adam getting his own apple all by himself ! PML 17197.1

[Alessandro Nicola Malusà, PhD @CourtDiaries]

@StefanHanss @gg_beduschi @JennWongSilver @StefanHanss Not yet, as it's part of my monograph! 🙈 Let me DM you more. @gg_beduschi 😘

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

Love this extendable 1566 medicine chest, up to a metre long, with 126 bottles & pots for drugs ~ some with their original contents ~ including rhubarb powder, anti-worms ointment, juniper water & mustard oil. Made for Genoese governor of Aegean island of Chios (Wellcome Trust)

[Witney Antiques @Witney_Antiques]

This 18th-century stomacher, covered in polychrome silk and silver metal thread embroidery, is perfect for spring! Its green tabs, which would have been pinned (or even stitched) in place to a gown with a V-shape opening, still survive

[UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest]

A Japanese pattern book from the mid 1800s. It shows the the stencil patterns the factory could print onto fabric to make a kimono - via The Ashmolean Museum

[Enfilade 18th-C Art & Architecture @Enfilade_HECAA]

Exhibition | Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550–1800 https://t.co/imZCaLiXCz

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

If you take a sumptuous wedding gown, embroider it with silver, wrap it up & bury it under sand & mud for 400 years, you might get something remarkable like this. Discovered intact in the 1620s wreck of the Palmwood, discovered buried off Dutch coast https://t.co/FtCAXuZubG

[The Met: Costume Institute @met_costume]

Undersleeves, 1850s #themet #metmuseum https://t.co/udL4ufICCB

[Filippo Lorenzin @fi_lor]

Column from a XII Century portal at Saint-Lazare d'Avallon church (France)

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

cleopatra, france, 14th century

[The Burgon Society @burgonsoc]

#OnThisDay 1585, William Cecil, chancellor of @Cambridge_Uni, in an effort to rein in exuberant student fashion issued a set of Orders for the Apparel of Scholars

No scholar was to wear any gown except one of “woollen cloth of blacke, puke, London browne, or other sad colour”

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

A map of every European City

[Malcolm Walsby @lankian]

Today, artichokes are mainly associated with Brittany & the southwest, but in the Renaissance they were new to France. Botanists thought they helped cure excessive armpit odours (!) & recommended that they should be eaten with coriander, oil, fermented fish sauce and wine... 1/5

[Alessandro Nicola Malusà, PhD @CourtDiaries]

@ZaraKesterton @DressingEMN @CamHistory @sarajacomien @AnaHowie1 😘

[Alessandro Nicola Malusà, PhD @CourtDiaries]

-10 days till 'Cross-Dressing the Early Modern', the 2022 @DressingEMN conference supported by @CamHistory, convened by Jola Pellumbi, @sarajacomien, @AnaHowie1 and yours truly. Register Now! https://t.co/RYLWlnmgD1

[Alessandro Nicola Malusà, PhD @CourtDiaries]

@ZaraKesterton @DressingEMN @CamHistory @sarajacomien @AnaHowie1 @ZaraKesterton the conference is entirely online! 💻♥️

[Alessandro Nicola Malusà, PhD @CourtDiaries]

@DressingEMN @CamHistory @sarajacomien @AnaHowie1 #EarlyModern #HistoryConference #Gender #Dress

[Northern Early Modern Network @nemnetwork_]

Check out this CFP for what looks set to be a fantastic conference on Cross-Dressing the Early Modern: Exploring Transformations through Dress!

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[Alessandro Nicola Malusà, PhD @CourtDiaries]

@AnaHowie1 @Cornell Congratulations!!!