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DESCRIPTION:Paula Hohti will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Thursda
 y\, November 10\, at 12 pm. Her talk is entitled “Beyond the Renaissance P
 alace: The Material World of Sixteenth-Century Artisans and Shopkeepers.”T
 he sixteenth century has been identified as an important period of change 
 in European material culture. Spurred by growing trade and economic prospe
 rity\, there was a growing demand for a wide range of decorative objects a
 nd luxuries that ranged from portrait paintings\, small gilded antique sta
 tues\, and maiolica services to fine linens\, personal dress accessories\,
  and fashionable clothing. Yet\, Renaissance material culture studies have
  been mainly confined to developments among wealthy Italian elites\, makin
 g it difficult to evaluate how ordinary Italians related to Renaissance cu
 lture. Did the Italian Renaissance\, as we understand it today\, make any 
 difference in the lives of ordinary Italians\, such as barbers\, bakers an
 d shoemakers? In this talk\, Hohti considers how the lower classes experie
 nced Renaissance culture\, by examining how local artists\, artisans\, and
  small-scale prosperous traders lived and dressed in sixteenth-century Ita
 ly.Paula Hohti is Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Culture at
  Aalto University School of Arts\, Design and Architecture in Helsinki and
  a Visiting Fellow at Bard Graduate Center. She received her PhD in Art Hi
 story from the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on Italian Renai
 ssance dress\, material culture\, and decorative arts\, with a special foc
 us on their role and function within the classes of artisans and shopkeepe
 rs. Her forthcoming monograph on the topic\, with the working title Beyond
  the Palace: Artisans and Material Culture in Renaissance Italy\, explores
  how lower artisanal groups such as bakers\, barbers\, and shoemakers\, un
 derstood and experienced Renaissance culture. Hohti has held research posi
 tions at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies\, the European Univer
 sity Institute in Florence\, and the University of Copenhagen\, and she ha
 s been a Principal Investigator in two major UK-based international resear
 ch projects: “Material Renaissance: Costs and Consumption in Italy 1350–16
 00” and “Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe\
 , 1500–1850\,” led by Professor Evelyn Welch. Her publications include the
  forthcoming “Cheap Magnificence?: Imitations and Low-Cost Luxuries in Ren
 aissance Italy\,” in Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in Early Modern Italy 
 (ed. Katherine Kovesi\; Brepols)\; “Dress\, Dissemination and Innovation: 
 Artisan Fashions in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Italy\,” in F
 ashioning the Early Modern: Dress\, Textiles\, and Innovation in Europe\, 
 1500–1800 (ed. E. Welch\; Oxford UP\, 2016)\; and “Conspicuous Consumption
  and Popular Consumers: Material Culture and Social Status in Sixteenth-Ce
 ntury Siena\,” in Renaissance Studies(Vol. 24.4\, 2010).
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Beyond the Renaissance Palace
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