Beetle-Wing Embroidery in Nineteenth-Century Fashion
Beetle-wing embroidery: a colonialist fantasia and exotic fad in nineteenth-century England and...
Read MoreBeetle-wing embroidery: a colonialist fantasia and exotic fad in nineteenth-century England and...
Read MoreIn a late 18th-century painting organized by skin tone, Agostino Brunias has depicted a range of colonial Dominican fashions from the wealthy elite to the poorest people whom they enslaved.
Read MoreThis 18th-century painting commemorates an historic fencing match between two French knights: one an illegitimate Black nobleman and the other a gender nonconforming spy.
Read MoreThis important painting of a Black Haitian deputy, once enslaved, commemorates his participation in the assembly that abolished slavery in France in 1794. He wears the tricolored uniform of a deputy of the French National Convention and only his gold earring speaks to his Colonial ties.
Read MoreThis dignified portrait by Diego Velázquez depicts his enslaved Black assistant, Juan de Pareja, who was a skilled artist in his own right.
Read MoreThis 18th-century grand manner portrait of two cousins juxtaposes fashionable turquerie with luxurious but conventional children’s clothing.
Read MoreGuipure lace is a type of continuous bobbin lace made without a mesh ground; its motifs are connected by bridges or plaits.
Read MoreThis painting of two 18th-century gentlewomen features fashionable trends in portraiture and clothing, including Orientalism, pastoralism, and masculine-inspired dress.
Read MoreDiego Bemba’s 1643 portrait, along with those of Pedro Sunda and Miguel de Castro, represents an early example of cultural exchange in which African ambassadors donning European costume in order to project a carefully curated image of cultural capital.
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