Lecture Feathers and the Making of Luxury Experiences Add to calendar 2022-04-26 17:00 2022-04-26 18:30 Europe/Rome Feathers and the Making of Luxury Experiences Sala del Consiglio Villa Salviati - Castle YYYY-MM-DD Print Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email When 26 April 2022 17:00 - 18:30 CEST Where Sala del Consiglio Villa Salviati - Castle Organised by Department of History The EUI Visual and Material History working group hosts a paper presentation on "Feathers and the Making of Luxury Experiences at the Early Modern Spanish Court." This paper charts the activities of featherworkers at the Habsburg court in Madrid. Drawing on archival records, objects, and paintings from sixteenth-century Spain, I argue that royal featherworkers’ skills, wit, and intricacy in the transformation of materials established feathers as luxury items. In sixteenth-century Spanish court society, feathers evoked sensory experiences that provoked emotions, staged civility, and enacted courtly hierarchies. The paper examines the significance of artisanal interventions to animate and enliven such qualities of feathers, and to turn feathers into luxury experiences.Please register to get a seat or the ZOOM link. Attachments: HEC Events - Privacy Statement - Sept 2021.pdf Contact(s): Ana Struillou Scientific Organiser(s): Ana Struillou Elisa Chazal (EUI) Isabelle Riepe (EUI) Speaker(s): Stefan Hanss (University of Manchester)