The Italian State buys Caravaggio's portrait of Maffeo Barberini, Pope Urban VIII, for €30 million for the Palazzo Barberini collection #earlymodern en.ilsole24ore.com/art/a-carava...

A Caravaggio for Palazzo Barberini: MiC buys for 30 million

After a year and a half of negotiations, the agreement with a Florentine private collection was concluded

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‘He invented what would later be called genre painting: an unhelpful term intended to encompass scenes of drinkers in taverns, card players, gypsies. But before this was a style it was Caravaggio.’ @erinmaglaque.bsky.social on Caravaggio’s clothes. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Erin Maglaque · Never Known Heaven: Caravaggio’s Clothes

Clothing, for Caravaggio, worked in the same way as his chiaroscuro, dramatising disclosure and reticence, attraction...

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Thank you to @erinmaglaque.bsky.social for this spirited piece on Caravaggio's art, street life and clothing drawing on themes from my book "Street Style". #earlymodern #dresshistory 🗃️🪡

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‘Caravaggio didn’t draw but painted directly onto the canvas. He invented a dramatic, overpowering chiaroscuro, a spotlit style he used to freeze the worst moments of his subjects’ lives in paint.’ @erinmaglaque.bsky.social on Caravaggio’s clothes. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Second Lecturer position at V&A - this one teaching on their History of Design MA programme. vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

It's yet to have a cover but still exciting to see details of our book on women textile designers out later this year! www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/women-... 🗃️🪡 #textilehistory #womenindesign

Women Textile Designers

Women Textile Designers features printed, woven, and embroidered fabrics created for public spaces, furnishings, fashion, and theater by some of the world’s most accomplished designers. Illustrated wi...

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Lecturer post in Fashion Curation and Storytelling at V&A/LCF for a new MA degree launching this September. Closing date 5 March 🪡🗃️ #fashionhistory #dresshistory www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO234/l...

Lecturer in Fashion Curation and Storytelling at Victoria and Albert Museum

Apply now for the Lecturer in Fashion Curation and Storytelling role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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I'll be talking about 'Street Style' on Thursday at Drinks with The Idler 🍻 www.idler.co.uk/article/book...

Book of the Week: Street Style | Idler

Historian Elizabeth Currie on art and clothing in the time of Caravaggio

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Job alert: several part time roles coming up on the team involved in delivering the 'Order an Object' service at V&A East Storehouse. vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

📣 New publication in @manchesterup.bsky.social Studies in Design and Material Culture Series: 'Fashion in Theory' edited by Marco Pecorari examining the meeting points between fashion and critical theory with a range of international contributors. 🗃️🪡 #fashionhistory

Le colloque commence jeudi ! 'Mapping fashion savoir faire:craft, space and scale 16th-21st centuries' 11-13 dec. sorbonne-alliance.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/m...

Mapping Fashion Savoir-Faire : Craft, Space and Scale 16th - 21st centuries | Sorbonne alliance

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It was fun to think about a few of my favourite books for this round up of #italianstudies on the New Books Network podcast. #earlymodern #renaissancestudies @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

New Books Network@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Catch up on our newsletter! Where in the World: Italy | Scholarly Sources with Elizabeth Currie | Meet a Host with Jen Hoyer Our newsletter is freely available so share it with a friend! @ecurrie.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.substack.com/p/dec-4?r=4n...

Job announcement: part time, fixed term contract for a research assistant for a global Renaissance exhibition @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Suitable for advanced doctoral candidates/early career applicants #earlymodern #16thcentury history.web.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/ra...

If you've ever wondered about the different kinds of clothing worn by the card players in Caravaggio's painting, 'Art in America' is featuring an extract about it from my book. #fashionhistory #earlymodern @reaktionbooks.bsky.social www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

How Caravaggio Painted Class and Clothes

An excerpt from Elizabeth Currie's new book Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio.

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Central Saint Martins is looking and smelling very woolly today with lots of talks, demonstrations + displays, part of the college's ongoing collaboration with British Wool. #textilehistory #fashionhistory

There's a 40% discount this weekend on my book 'Street Style' (and a great range of other titles!) in Reaktion Books Black Friday sale. www.instagram.com/p/DRl3eO-D1L...

Reaktion Books on Instagram: "It's that time of year! We're offering a whopping 40% off all our titles* when you use code BLACKFRIDAY25 at checkout. Head to www.reaktionbooks.co.uk and get browsing! ...

5 likes, 0 comments - reaktionbooks on November 27, 2025: "It's that time of year! We're offering a whopping 40% off all our titles* when you use code BLACKFRIDAY25 at checkout. Head to www.reaktionbo...

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Someone really had fun with metal threads and wire here. Not content with a shiny dress, crown and sceptre, this very regal Esther has two attendants holding up her train and a parasol in a c. 1640 embroidery at The Holburne Museum, Bath. #textilehistory #fashionhistory

The recently opened Fragonard Fashion and Costume Museum in Arles, with some beautifully displayed 18th-19th century outfits. 🪡🗃️

I've written a short piece for History Today about changing attitudes towards the poor in sixteenth-century Rome. #earlymodern

History Today@historytoday.com · 10mo ago

Rome welcomed and tended to the vast numbers of pilgrims who arrived in the #16thcentury, but its attitude to its own poor could be very different. 🔓 Elizabeth Currie’s new History Matters is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

I enjoyed talking about soldiers, sumptuary laws and the second-hand trade in Rome for a recent episode of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🗃️🪡 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Elizabeth Currie,

Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 11/02/2025 · 38m

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Anni Albers' textiles are in the spotlight in an exhibition in Bern, moving onto Vienna next year, with an accompanying Yale University Press publication. #textilehistory www.zpk.org/en/ausstellu...

Anni Albers.

Anni Albers (1889–1994) is one of the most important figures in the art and design of the 20th century. Her creative and experimental career began in the 1920s in the Bauhaus, where she took lessons w...

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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: italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/early-modern... 🗃️🪡 #earlymodern

Part-time collections assistant post with English Heritage closing date 19 October. #museumjobs www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-pe...

Collections Assistant

Heritage is for everybody, and we are here for heritage.

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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...

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.

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Some thoughts on Caravaggio's inventive representations of dress in a blog for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. #earlymodern 🗃️🪡 reaktionbooks.co.uk/caravaggio-a...

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.

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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. 🗃️🪡 pinacotecabrera.org/en/news/most...

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 ...

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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. 🗃️🪡 #earlymodern 📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-matti...

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! #earlymodern www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

Another AI triumph #earlymodern www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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

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

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

Dirty Looks | Barbican

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion.

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