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Elizabeth Currie
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Dress and textile historian. New book 'Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio' out Sept 2025. Joint Series Editor MUP Studies in Design and Material Culture. Lecturer at Central Saint Martins: https://independent.academia.edu/ElizabethCurrie
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The recently opened Fragonard Fashion and Costume Museum in Arles, with some beautifully displayed 18th-19th century outfits.
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Brightly coloured bodice and skirt printed in Jouy-en-Josas around 1790 Orange-red sack-back gown, matching stomacher and petticoat, c. 1770 Brown day dress printed with yellow diamonds made of glazed cotton with a ruffled shirt collar (reconstructed) c. 1815
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I've written a short piece for History Today about changing attitudes towards the poor in sixteenth-century Rome.

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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

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Pilgrims and Poverty in Renaissance Rome
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November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I enjoyed talking about soldiers, sumptuary laws and the second-hand trade in Rome for a recent episode of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Currie,
Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 11/02/2025 · 38m
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November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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
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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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November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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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:
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Detail of the tapestry of The Healing of the Lame Man designed by Raphael, showing a kneeling man wearing a sleeveless linen tunic and holding a stick.
October 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Part-time collections assistant post with English Heritage closing date 19 October.
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Collections Assistant
Heritage is for everybody, and we are here for heritage.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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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!
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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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October 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Some thoughts on Caravaggio's inventive representations of dress in a blog for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.

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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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October 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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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.
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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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October 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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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.
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📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Two men and a woman playing music and a game of draughts seated around a table in a dark interior. They are wearing brightly coloured, striped clothing.
October 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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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!
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Early Modern World History | Faculty of History University of Cambridge
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October 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Another AI triumph
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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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September 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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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.

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Caravaggio's world: Elizabeth Currie and Helen Langdon in conversation | Events | National Gallery, London
Two art historians discuss Caravaggio's world on his birthday.
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September 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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The Barbican's first fashion show in eight years opens next week: 'Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion'.
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Dirty Looks | Barbican
Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion.
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September 20, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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A great opportunity to get close up to some fifteenth-century printed books at this short talk at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Monday.
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National Art Library and Archive talks (Monday at 11.30 except Bank Holidays) - Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A
Join National Art Library and V&A Archive staff each Monday for a short talk on an item of their choosing. Museum visitors will encounter some extraordinary collection items and experience the Victori...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Giovanni Bellini's Saint Jerome with an impressive tunic, complete with side clip and mini bag. Currently on display at The Courtauld Gallery with other paintings loaned from The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham.
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Detail of Saint Jerome's draped white linen tunic Saint Jerome seated opposite a lion with a thorn in his paw in a rocky landscape by Giovanni Bellini, c. 1455
September 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Looking forward to this talk at The Wallace Collection - an event linked to their Caravaggio display opening in November.
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Get your tickets! Join Dr Elizabeth Currie to gain fresh perspectives on some of Caravaggio’s best known paintings, and the life experiences of those depicted.

🎟️ Friday 12 December 2025
6.30pm
The Wallace Collection

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September 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Women textile designers for Liberty are the focus of the new exhibition opening at the William Morris Gallery next month - so many fabulous pieces to choose from! #textilehistory
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Women in Print
An exhibition exploring the evolving influence and status of women in textiles over the past 150 years, through the lens of Liberty Fabrics.
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September 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Elegant, determined, a little unknowable: Giorgio Armani is gone but will never be forgotten
The designer reinvented power dressing, redefined what it meant to look modern and was the architect of how we dress now
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September 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Just discovered that the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is now open access, including my article from 2019 on clothing, health and the body in #earlymodern England and Italy.
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August 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The Velasco show at the National Gallery, London, is well worth a visit before it closes on 17 August. As well as epic landscapes, it offers a glimpse into Mexico's burgeoning textile industry in the nineteenth century.
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A volcanic peak rises up behind extensive plains covered with lush vegetation. The buildings of a textile mill can be seen towards the horizon. A goatherd follows his flock on the banks next to an industrial dam supplying the textile mill La Hormiga shown on the right of the painting.
August 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Early career, fixed-term curatorial fellowship focusing on European paintings 1600-1800 at the National Gallery, London. #earlymodern #arthistory
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The Vimar Curatorial Fellow (Paintings 1600 - 1800) - London (Central), London (Greater) job with THE NATIONAL GALLERY | 9693493
The National Gallery invites applications for the Vivmar Curatorial Fellowship, a 22-month paid position starting in October 2025.
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August 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Serbian textile designer Bernat Klein's 'dilapidated' modernist textile studio is being sold at auction. Klein's client list included Chanel and Victor Stiebel.
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A-listed brutalist studio up for sale at £18,000 - BBC News
The dilapidated studio of textile designer Bernat Klein is to go on sale with a guide price of £18,000.
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July 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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The portrait collection at Knole @nationaltrust.org.uk lived up to expectations - especially the newly conserved painting of Ralph Bosville.
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Detail of a portrait of Mary Curzon with an elaborately embroidered dress and ostrich feather fan. Portrait of Mary Sackville by William Larkin with an embroidered bodice and her hair twisted in sections to fan out around her head. Portrait of the French author Ninon de Lenclos with striking braided hair and a pearl necklace. Detail of portrait of Ralph Bosville with a magnificently pinked matching doublet and hose in shiny black satin with a red lining.
July 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🧵One week to go! 🧵The deadline for submission to our conference on the crafts of fashion and space is July 15th
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Mapping Fashion Savoir Faire: Craft, Space and Scale 16th-21st centuries
Paris, International Conference 11th-13th December
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July 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM