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Feathers and the Making of Luxury Experiences

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When

26 April 2022

17:00 - 18:30 CEST

Where

Sala del Consiglio

Villa Salviati - Castle

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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.

Contact(s):

Ana Struillou

Speaker(s):

Stefan Hanss (University of Manchester)

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