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DESCRIPTION:Sophie Pitman will deliver the Alumni Spotlight Lecture on Tues
 day\, April 30\, at\n6 pm. Her talk is entitled “Reconstructing Renaissanc
 e Clothing.”\n\n The early modern\nperiod is often characterized as an era
  of sumptuous luxury\, with rich velvets\,\nshining pearls\, and gold orna
 ment. Extreme fashions such as highly starched\nlinen ruffs\, slashed sati
 n doublets\, and elaborately underpropped skirts have\ncome to define the 
 visual appeal of the Renaissance. But so few garments are\npreserved in co
 llections\, and sources about clothes (whether fashionable\nor quotidian) 
 are spread across a vast range of sources\, many of\nwhich focus on the el
 ites. How can we study objects that no longer survive? Using\nexamples of 
 surviving clothing alongside reconstructed objects\,\nthis talk will sugge
 st how historians can reconstruct the fashions of\nearly modern Europe in 
 spite of a paucity of evidence. It will discuss the\nincreasing interest a
 mong historians in hands-on experimentation\, and will\npropose some of th
 e challenges and opportunities of using this kind of\nmethodology. \n\nSop
 hie Pitman is a postdoctoral\nresearcher on the ERC project Refashioning t
 he Renaissance: Popular\nGroups\, Fashion and the Material and Cultural Si
 gnificance of Clothing in\nEurope\, 1550-1650 based at Aalto University\, 
 School of Arts\, Design\nand Architecture in Helsinki\, Finland. After tak
 ing a Masters at Bard Graduate\nCenter\, where she won the Wainwright Awar
 d for her QP on fashion dolls\, she\ngained her PhD in History at the Univ
 ersity of Cambridge. Her interest in\nreconstruction as a methodology bega
 n during her PhD research\, and developed\nduring her postdoc on the Makin
 g and Knowing Project at Columbia University.\nShe is currently preparing 
 a monograph based on her PhD about clothing in early\nmodern London\, and 
 an edited volume entitled “Spaces of Making and Thinking:\nEnvironments of
  Creative Labor in the Early Modern Period.”
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Reconstructing Renaissance Clothing
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