The marvellous aesthetic and technical advances of the Renaissance form the theme of our next 'Material World' event on 7 July @5.30pm, featuring @louisamckenzie.bsky.social of @glasgow.ac.uk. Book for free - come in person to the Warburg, or join online: lnkd.in/ekw4Ucge @amaterialworld.bsky.social

Our next event will be @louisamckenzie.bsky.social on artistic and technical exchange between #sculptors in #renaissance #florence. 7 July at 5:30pm, either at @warburginstitute.bsky.social or online. Click below to find out more. #arthistory #sculpture warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

A Material World - 'Artistic Encounters: Orsino Benintendi, Verrocchio, and the Exchange of Aesthetic and Technical Know-How in Renaissance Florence'

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My first academic article, ‘“This Hall Has the Look of a City”: Display Strategies for Wax Ex-Votos and Botticelli’s Compositions for the Adoration of the Magi’ has been published in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte Volume 89 Issue 1: doi.org/10.1515/zkg-... #arthistory #botticelli #renaissance

“This Hall Has the Look of a City”: Display Strategies for Wax Ex-Votos and Botticelli’s Compositions for the Adoration of the Magi

This paper suggests that the deliberate, structured way in which wax ex-votos were arranged in the Florentine church of Santissima Annunziata should not be overlooked as a factor that contributed to t...

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✨ Happening online today! Book for free here: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #materialculture #fashionhistory #earlymodern #textiles #textilehistory

A Material World - 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices'

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A Material World@amaterialworld.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Join us for our next event: 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices' by Keiko Suzuki (Ritsumeikan University) 🗓️ 2 Feb 🕰️ 5:30pm UK time 📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #textiles #history

Make sure to join us online on Monday 2 February for @amaterialworld.bsky.social talk 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices' warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #MaterialCulture #History

Join us for our next event: 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices' by Keiko Suzuki (Ritsumeikan University) 🗓️ 2 Feb 🕰️ 5:30pm UK time 📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #textiles #history

A Material World - 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices'

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📣One week today! @warburginstitute.bsky.social #arthistory #history #historylover #learning #earlymodern #frenchhistory #materialculture

A Material World@amaterialworld.bsky.social · 8mo ago

For our next event, Dr Barbara Lasic (Sothebys Institute of Art) will speak on ‘Crafting and Staging Magnificence: French Royal Manufactures as Sites of Diplomatic Encounters’. 🗓️ 12 January 🕰️ 5:30pm 📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social 🔗 Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Ever wondered what Warburg alumni go on to do? Our latest Life After the Warburg blog features @louisamckenzie.bsky.social, now a Research Associate on the UKRI-funded Art and Inequality in the Post-Black Death Century project at the University of Glasgow. Read:

Life after the Warburg: Louisa McKenzie

Warburg alumna Louisa McKenzie discusses her current research, the impact she hopes it will have and the routes her career has taken since leaving the Institute.

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For our next event, Dr Barbara Lasic (Sothebys Institute of Art) will speak on ‘Crafting and Staging Magnificence: French Royal Manufactures as Sites of Diplomatic Encounters’. 🗓️ 12 January 🕰️ 5:30pm 📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social 🔗 Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

📣 For our first event for 2025-2026, Maria Golovteeva (@warburginstitute.bsky.social) will speak on ‘Visions of Nubia: Photographing and Researching Nubian Art in the 1970s’. 🔗 Book for free via the link in our bio. #art #nubianart #photography #afterlives #arthistory #museums

We are delighted to announce that A Material World will be returning for our 6th year of events @warburginstitute.bsky.social. The theme for this year is Encounters. Full programme to be announced soon. #materialculture #arthistory #history #globalhistory

♻️ Waste not, want not! Discover more about how parchments were reused and recycled in the 14th century, plus some of our discoveries in the archives, here: www.artandinequality.com/waste-and-re... #history #materialculture #waste #reuse #medievalbindings #medievalhistory #archives

Interested in the commissioning practices of late medieval non-elites? Give @artandinequality.bsky.social a follow to keep up to date with their latest news.

Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death@artandinequality.bsky.social · last yr.

📜All the documents our project looks at have one thing in common - they were drawn up by a notary. 🪶Each medieval notary used a distinctive personal mark. Find out more here: www.artandinequality.com/whats-your-s... #medievalhistory #arthistory #nonelite #history #testaments #notary

Interested in art commissions made by European non-elites between 1225 and 1525? Then give @artandinequality.bsky.social a follow! #arthistory #medieval #medievalhistory #testaments

📺 Now available to watch: 'Game of Thrones. Early Modern Playing Cards and Portrait Miniature Painting' Discover how playing cards became the unexpected canvas for miniature portraits in this talk by Karin Leonhard. warburg.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/a-m... @amaterialworld.bsky.social #ArtHistory

A Material World | Game of Thrones. Early Modern Playing Cards and Portrait Miniature Painting

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📣Happening next week ‼️ More details below⬇️ #arthistory #renaissance #materialculture #games #portraits #funandgames #history

A Material World@amaterialworld.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us on 1 April (5:30pm), online @warburginstitute.bsky.social, to hear Karin Leonhard (Konstanz University) on ' #GameofThrones #EarlyModern #PlayingCards and Portrait Miniature Painting'. More details and book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat... #arthistory #portraits #renaissance

Join us on 1 April (5:30pm), online @warburginstitute.bsky.social, to hear Karin Leonhard (Konstanz University) on ' #GameofThrones #EarlyModern #PlayingCards and Portrait Miniature Painting'. More details and book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat... #arthistory #portraits #renaissance

Missed our most recent event at @warburginstitute.bsky.social? Never fear, you can catch up below: youtu.be/FqdGDYKtALs?... Go #behindthescenes of the exhibition Untold Lives: A Palace at Work held at Kensington Palace last year, with one of the curators, Dr Mishka Sinha. #history #earlymodern

A Material World | Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects

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Happening tomorrow online! Curator Mishka Sinha on 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects'. Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat... #untoldhistory #materialculture #museums #curating #curatorial #materialmonday

Join us on Tuesday (26/11) at 5:30pm, online at the Warburg Institute, to hear curator Mishka Sinha on 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects'. Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat... #untoldhistory #materialculture #museums #curating #curatorial

Go #behindthescenes of a recent exhibition at Kensington Palace with one of the curators, Mishka Sinha, in our next event, 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects' 📆 26/11 🕰️5:30pm 📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...

A Material World - 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects'

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A Material World@amaterialworld.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 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 @warburginstitute.bsky.social 🔗 Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...

In the meantime, catch up with recordings of our previous events here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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The 'A Material World' event series focuses on the reconstruction of life in the past through objects and materials, the people who made them and the people ...

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

A Material World@amaterialworld.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 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 @warburginstitute.bsky.social 🔗 Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...

📣 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 @warburginstitute.bsky.social 🔗 Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...

A Material World is an event series hosted by the Warburg Institute which focuses on the reconstruction of life in the past through objects and materials, the people who made them and the people who used them. Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on/mat... #materialculture #arthistory #museums

A Material World

An event series that focuses on the reconstruction of life in the past through objects and materials, the people who made them and the people who used them.

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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: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat... #socialhistory #historyoffashion #dresshistory

Hello new followers! Lovely to connect. I’m Louisa, a historian of late medieval and early Renaissance devotional (for the most part) art and material culture. I’ve worked a lot on wax sculpture and my main interests include: (cont’d)