Elizabeth Currie

Detail of the tapestry of The Healing of the Lame Man designed by Raphael, showing a kneeling man wearing a sleeveless linen tunic and holding a stick.

I'll be in Oxford on 28 October talking about clothing and the poor in Rome for the Italian Early Modern World Seminar. This is their line up for the term:
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Collections Assistant Heritage is for everybody, and we are here for heritage.

Part-time collections assistant post with English Heritage closing date 19 October.
#museumjobs
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Lunchtime Lectures: Shoes and the Georgian Man - V&A Academy Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A This talk is part of the free Lunchtime Lecture programme. No booking is required.

On 20 November, I'm giving a lunchtime lecture at the V&A about my book Shoes and the Georgian Man. It's free, do come along!
#skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...

Caravaggio and the Language of Dress | Reaktion Books In this blog, author Elizabeth Currie talks about the subject of her new book, Street Style, Caravaggio, and his works in relation to the language of dress.

Some thoughts on Caravaggio's inventive representations of dress in a blog for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.

#earlymodern 🗃️🪡
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Giorgio Armani. Milano, per amore | Pinacoteca di Brera To celebrate fifty years of creativity, the Pinacoteca di Brera presents its first-ever exhibition dedicated to the stylistic journey of Giorgio Armani, welcoming a curated selection of garments into ...

The Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan is displaying 120 outfits by Giorgio Armani. The show, which opened just weeks after his death, will run until 11 January.
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Two men and a woman playing music and a game of draughts seated around a table in a dark interior. They are wearing brightly coloured, striped clothing.

The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century.
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📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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If you're in Cambridge next Thursday I'll be talking about my new book for the Early Modern World Seminar - they have a great line up this term!
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AI analysis finds £71,000 painting dismissed as copy is a Caravaggio Exclusive: Study gives 85.7% probability Badminton House version of The Lute Player is by 17th-century master

Another AI triumph
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I'll be talking to Caravaggio expert Helen Langdon about the artist's varied sources of inspiration at the National Gallery next Monday.

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www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/carav...

Dirty Looks | Barbican Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion.

The Barbican's first fashion show in eight years opens next week: 'Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion'.
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www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

National Art Library and Archive talks (Monday at 11.30 except Bank Holidays) - Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A Join National Art Library and V&A Archive staff each Monday for a short talk on an item of their choosing. Museum visitors will encounter some extraordinary collection items and experience the Victori...

A great opportunity to get close up to some fifteenth-century printed books at this short talk at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Monday.
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www.vam.ac.uk/event/yO4oRy...

It does look a bit opinionated

Detail of Saint Jerome's draped white linen tunic

Saint Jerome seated opposite a lion with a thorn in his paw in a rocky landscape by Giovanni Bellini, c. 1455

Giovanni Bellini's Saint Jerome with an impressive tunic, complete with side clip and mini bag. Currently on display at The Courtauld Gallery with other paintings loaned from The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham.
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Looking forward to this talk at The Wallace Collection - an event linked to their Caravaggio display opening in November.
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Women in Print An exhibition exploring the evolving influence and status of women in textiles over the past 150 years, through the lens of Liberty Fabrics.

Women textile designers for Liberty are the focus of the new exhibition opening at the William Morris Gallery next month - so many fabulous pieces to choose from! #textilehistory
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www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/women-...

Elegant, determined, a little unknowable: Giorgio Armani is gone but will never be forgotten The designer reinvented power dressing, redefined what it meant to look modern and was the architect of how we dress now

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

Just discovered that the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is now open access, including my article from 2019 on clothing, health and the body in #earlymodern England and Italy.
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www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

A volcanic peak rises up behind extensive plains covered with lush vegetation. The buildings of a textile mill can be seen towards the horizon.

A goatherd follows his flock on the banks next to an industrial dam supplying the textile mill La Hormiga shown on the right of the painting.

The Velasco show at the National Gallery, London, is well worth a visit before it closes on 17 August. As well as epic landscapes, it offers a glimpse into Mexico's burgeoning textile industry in the nineteenth century.
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The Vimar Curatorial Fellow (Paintings 1600 - 1800) - London (Central), London (Greater) job with THE NATIONAL GALLERY | 9693493 The National Gallery invites applications for the Vivmar Curatorial Fellowship, a 22-month paid position starting in October 2025.

Early career, fixed-term curatorial fellowship focusing on European paintings 1600-1800 at the National Gallery, London. #earlymodern #arthistory
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A-listed brutalist studio up for sale at £18,000 - BBC News The dilapidated studio of textile designer Bernat Klein is to go on sale with a guide price of £18,000.

Serbian textile designer Bernat Klein's 'dilapidated' modernist textile studio is being sold at auction. Klein's client list included Chanel and Victor Stiebel.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's hard to conceive of how much work was involved!

Detail of a portrait of Mary Curzon with an elaborately embroidered dress and ostrich feather fan.

Portrait of Mary Sackville by William Larkin with an embroidered bodice and her hair twisted in sections to fan out around her head.

Portrait of the French author Ninon de Lenclos with striking braided hair and a pearl necklace.

Detail of portrait of Ralph Bosville with a magnificently pinked matching doublet and hose in shiny black satin with a red lining.

The portrait collection at Knole @nationaltrust.org.uk lived up to expectations - especially the newly conserved painting of Ralph Bosville.
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Mapping Fashion Savoir Faire: Craft, Space and Scale 16th-21st centuries Paris, International Conference 11th-13th December

🧵One week to go! 🧵The deadline for submission to our conference on the crafts of fashion and space is July 15th
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The latest addition to the 'Studies in Design and Material Culture' series @manchesterup.bsky.social on the ways historical interiors have been re-presented for contemporary audiences.📣

You're on a roll! 👏👏

Great news that Flora Dennis will be joining the Warburg Institute as Deputy Director in October 👏 #earlymodern

‘The national museum of absolutely everything’: new V&A outpost is an architectural delight Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture … our architecture critic is wowed by how the V&A East Storehouse lets visitors ‘breathe the same air’ as its 250,000...

A Guardian review of V&A East Storehouse. Perhaps a surprising choice of object given his dislike of the recent Sargent exhibition exploring links between art and fashion.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign....

ANNOUNCING 🔔

'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - prev. winner of @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social

A magnificently illustrated study of skin in Renaissance Europe, coming 1st July 💎

What happens when you see skin differently?

@bristoluni.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Congratulations - looking forward to reading it!

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage at University of Oxford Discover Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- 1 yr research post working on ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House’ - University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...