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Dressing a Picture: Reimagining the Court Portrait 1500–1800

Dressing a Picture will explore cultures of dressing, its representation in courtly images, and how these practices and portrayals impacted the realities of courtly life.

Virtual conference, May 6–7

For more information and to register, click here.

Programme:

6th May 2021

Panel 1:  Materialising Courtly Bodies
Panel Keynote Karen Hearn (UCL)
Richly apparelled, and her belly laid out …’: Signalling (or not Signalling) Pregnancy in 16th and Early 17th Century Court Portraits

Ana Howie (University of Cambridge)
‘White ruff and red cuffs, on a black dress. The negro dressed in yellow’: Materialising bodies in van Dyck’s Portrait of Elena Grimaldi-Cattaneo

Lisa Nunn (East Anglia University)
‘A hundred times fitter for a Barn than a Palace’: A gendered analysis of the Protectorate portraits of Elizabeth Cromwell and her daughters

Chair: Holly Fletcher

Panel 2: Negotiating Gender in Early Modern Portraiture
Panel Keynote Catherine Stearn (Eastern Kentucky University)
Countess or Queen, Countess and Queen: how dress and portraiture illuminate the role of Elizabeth I’s privy chamber women

Vanessa de Cruz Medina (Independent Scholar)
Ladies-in-Waiting & Portrait Galleries: Identity, Family and Power at Early Modern Habsburg Courts

Alice Blow (University of Cambridge)
Gender Ambiguity in The Cobbe Portrait of Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton, c. 1590-1593

Chair: Sophie Pitman

Panel 3: The Court Portrait: Global Considerations
Panel Keynote Mei Mei Rado (LACMA)
Qing Imperial Portraits and Europe 

Jessica Hower (Southwestern University)
Drawing an Empire: Elizabeth I, The Armada Portrait, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World

Marina Hopkins (Warburg Institute)
The Portrait of María Luisa de Toledo with her Indigenous Companion

Alejandro M. Sanz Guillén (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Shoguns and Emperors: Representations of the Japanese Court in Europe during the 18th century

Chair: Giorgio Riello

7th May 2021

Panel 4: The Court: A Stage for Princely Society
Panel Keynote Dr Katarzyna Kosior (Northumbria University)
Defining the royal court in Poland-Lithuania: some textual evidence from Jan III Sobieski’s lifetime (1629-1696)

Martina Vyskupova (Slovak National Museum)
Portrait representation of Maria Theresa as a Queen of Hungary seated on a horse in the context of period female equestrian portraits in the 18th century

Pedro Manuel Tavares (Centro de História de Arte — CHAIA)
D. Joana de Áustria, embodiment of political/religious propaganda of the Habsburg Women, beyond the Validos power

Annalisa Nicholson (University of Cambridge)
The Transfiguration of Hortense Mancini. How the vagabond Duchess became the patron saint of brides

Chair: Caroline van Eck

Panel 5 : The Artist Behind the Portrait
Panel Keynote Dr. Cordula van Wyhe (University of York)
Fashioning Displaced Identities: Anthony’s van Dyck as Portraitist of the French Exiles

Sarah Emily Farkas (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Sibylle of Cleves: Cranach, Convention, and Clothing Identity in Lutheran Saxony

Alessandro Nicola Malusà (University of Cambridge)
The Sitter as Artist: Depicting Mourning Dress and Negotiating Authority in the Regencies of Christine of France and Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours

Chair: Alexander Marr

Featured Keynote Lecture
Erin Griffey (The University of Auckland)
‘Beauties Silken Livery’: Dressing the Face at the Early Modern Court 

Chair: Ulinka Rublack

Published on April 14, 2021

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